Translation
wrongly, done in error
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Examples
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You misunderstood my question.
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He abused the trust of his friends.
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I miscalculated the cost of the trip.
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The letter went astray to another address.
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She mispronounced the name of the town.
- says the action was done, but done wrong. gives i, to misunderstand; gives i, to misuse; gives i; gives i, to blunder. English speakers get this one free, since it behaves almost exactly like the English prefix, and the verb ending never changes.
The nuance is that - reports a mistake, not a moral judgement. Something clumsy or botched rather than wicked takes --, and a plain denial takes , so is failing to understand at all while i is understanding the wrong thing. Nothing in the first thousand words uses the prefix, and is a single root that has fooled many a beginner.
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