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Translation

to pull, to draw, to drag

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Examples

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The horse is pulling the vehicle.

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He pulled the door towards himself.

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She pulled me by the hand.

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Do not pull so hard!

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They dragged the ship to the shore.

The body part you grab someone by takes : , , . Prefixes do the rest of the work here. pulls out, attracts, detiri pulls off, and is the drawer, literally the pull-box. A sword is drawn with too, which is worth knowing before you meet the fairy tales.

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Word family

Words built on tiri with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.

  • altiriverb

    to attract

    altiri: to pull towards

  • eltiriverb

    to pull out, to draw out; to extract

    eltiri

  • to withdraw, to retreat

    re-tiri-iĝ-

  • drawer

    tirikesto

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This word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 12: tiri, etendi, ĉapelo and 7 more words.