Translation
to obey
Examples
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The soldiers obeyed their captain.
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Obey your mother!
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The dog obeys only one voice.
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He never obeyed the law.
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She refused to obey and left.
The root is obe-, so the infinitive is with two vowels running together and no consonant between them. Say them both, o-BE-i, and remember that the stress lands on the second-to-last vowel, which here is the e. It is normally transitive and takes a plain accusative, on, though appears in older texts and is not wrong. Useful children: obeo for obedience, a for obedient by disposition, and i for to disobey.
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