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Translation

to die

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Examples

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He died in the night.

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Her father died three years ago.

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I do not want to die.

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The word does not die.

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Every person has to die.

is strictly intransitive: you die, you cannot die something, and it never takes an accusative object. To kill is , with the -- suffix that adds a doer, and i does not exist because the verb is already the change of state. is the standard way to say three years ago. The participle means dead in the sense of having died, against senviva for lifeless.

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Word family

Words built on morti with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.

  • to die out, to become extinct

    formorti

  • to kill, to put to death

    morti-ig-

  • to shoot dead

    mortipafi

  • senmortaadjective

    immortal, undying

    senmorti

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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 2: morti, dio, iom and 11 more words.