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Translation

surprise

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Examples

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His sudden arrival was a big surprise.

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She looked at me with surprise.

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I have a little surprise for you.

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The surprise was too much for him.

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After the first surprise we started laughing.

The verb is transitive and it runs the way the event does the surprising: . If you are the one taken aback you need the participle, surprizita, or you drop the root altogether and use . Writing means you surprised somebody else, which is rarely what a learner intends.

as an adverb covers surprisingly and unexpectedly, and is the adjective.

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This word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 6: surprizo, salono, kvieta and 7 more words.