Translation
to perish, to be destroyed
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Examples
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The ship perished in the gale.
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Many soldiers perished in the war.
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Without water we would all perish.
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The old town was destroyed by fire.
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He saved the child, who almost perished.
The root is pere-, so the infinitive keeps two vowels in a row and the past is with three. It looks odd written down and sounds fine spoken. Meaning-wise it is stronger than : to is simply to die, while to is to be destroyed, wrecked, wiped out, which is why ships and cities do it as readily as people. Intransitive, so add -- when you are the one doing the destroying: i. is ruin or destruction.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 8, lesson 8: perei, prepari, partopreni and 7 more words.