Translation
to shoot, to fire
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Examples
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The soldier shot at the bird.
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He fired and missed.
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Do not shoot! We are friends.
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They will fire at six o'clock.
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The captain ordered them to fire at the ship.
The object of is what leaves the weapon, not what it hits: you shoot a bullet, and the target takes or . So is shooting at a lion, while reads oddly, as though the lion were the projectile. To say you shot someone dead, use . The root builds the whole armoury: o is a gun, o sustained gunfire, i a single sudden shot, and sin covers anything that hurls itself forward.
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Word family
Words built on pafi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- mortpafiverb
to shoot dead
mortipafi
- pafilonoun
gun, rifle
pafi-il-: a tool for shooting
- pafmortigiverb
to kill by shooting, to gun down
pafimortigi
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 9, lesson 12: pafi, kruela, loĝejo and 6 more words.