Translation
to kill, to put to death
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Examples
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The robber wanted to kill the old man.
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They killed the lion with a sword.
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Do not kill the animal!
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The war killed many people.
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If you do not help, the illness will kill him.
is not a separate word to learn at all: it is plus --, the suffix that means "cause to". is intransitive and can never take an object, so the moment you want a killer and a victim in the same sentence you reach for . The same machine gives for the person who did it and sin for suicide. There is no matching i, because is already the intransitive half of the pair and -- would have nothing left to do. English hides all this behind two unrelated words, die and kill, and Esperanto simply refuses to.
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Word family
Words built on mortigi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- pafmortigiverb
to kill by shooting, to gun down
pafimortigi
- sinmortigonoun
suicide
simortigi
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 12: mortigi, brako, permesi and 7 more words.