Translation
to approach, to draw near
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Examples
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The evening is drawing near.
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He approached the window.
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A ship drew near to the shore.
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We will draw near to the town before night.
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The gale drew near quickly.
Built straight from , near, plus --, to become: to become near is to approach. That is the whole grammar of it, and it shows Esperanto doing its best trick, deriving a verb you would otherwise have to memorise. It is intransitive, so the thing you approach takes , never a bare accusative. is the same word with - welded on and is if anything commoner in print - both are correct, so pick one and be consistent. The transitive counterpart i means to bring something closer.
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Word family
Words built on proksimiĝi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- alproksimiĝiverb
to approach, to draw near
alproksimiĝi
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 9, lesson 2: proksimiĝi, konfuzi, speco and 6 more words.