Kilo Lingo

#651 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to break, to smash

Examples

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The boy broke the window.

promeson.

She broke her promise.

is .

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, rompo is a break or a breach, and i smashes a thing to pieces rather than merely cracking it.

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This word is part of lesson 14.