Translation
to break, to smash
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Examples
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The boy broke the window.
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She broke her promise.
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The sword broke in his hand.
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Do not break that old chair.
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The strong waves broke the boat.
is transitive, always. Something breaks something else. When the thing simply falls apart on its own you need i: is, the glass broke. English lets one verb do both jobs and Esperanto refuses, so says the window broke something, which it did not.
The root is productive. is to interrupt, literally to break into, is a break or a breach, and i smashes a thing to pieces rather than merely cracking it.
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Word family
Words built on rompi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- disrompiverb
to break apart, to smash
dis-rompi: to break into pieces
- disrompiÄiverb
to break apart, to shatter
dis-rompi-iÄ-: to become broken into pieces
- interrompiverb
to interrupt
interrompi
- rompeblaadjective
breakable, fragile
rompi-ebl-: able to be broken
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 8: rompi, klopodi, majstro and 6 more words.