Translation
to take over, to assume (a role, a duty)
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Word origin
An Esperanto compound: trans, across, from Latin trans, plus preni, to take, from French prendre and behind it Latin prehendere. To take across, which is to take something over from somebody else.
- Origin
- Esperanto, on Latin roots
- Root
- trans + preni
- English cognates
- transfer, apprehend
Examples
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His son took over his father's work.
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Who will take over my task?
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The new director took over the factory.
Decode it. . , rank 592, is across or beyond. , rank 183, is to take. Taking a thing across from one holder to another is taking it over, and the word means exactly what its parts say.
The family. This is one of the best-behaved verb clusters in the language, and by now you have most of it:
, rank 183 - to take, the bare verb, rank 1630 - to take on, to adopt: a habit, an attitude, a name, rank 1768 - to borrow, literally to take on loan, rank 2479 - to take over from somebody, rank 2469 - to take around, that is, to embrace
Five words, one root, and in every case the preposition tells you the direction of the taking. Once you can see the pattern you can read compounds you have never met: is to take away, kunpreni is to take along, elpreni is to take out. None of them needs a dictionary.
is transitive and takes the thing taken over as its object: a job, a business, a duty, a debt, a turn of phrase. is the takeover.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 26, lesson 10: transpreni, lulilo, modera and 7 more words.