Translation
to impose, to thrust upon
Word origin
From Latin trudere, 'to thrust, to push'. The same verb gave English intrude, extrude and protrude, and the shove in all of them is exactly the shove in trudi.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- trudere
- English cognates
- intrude, extrude, protrude
Examples
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Do not force your help on people who did not ask for it.
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The government imposed a new tax on the whole country.
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He thrust on me a book that I did not want to read at all.
is pushing something on somebody who does not want it. The grammar follows the meaning: the thing pushed takes the accusative, the victim takes . - he forced his help on me. Get the two round the wrong way and the sentence stops making sense, because it is the help that moves, not the person.
A false seam. The word looks buildable. Truo is a hole, and if you squint you can read trud- as - plus a suffix -ud-. There is no suffix -ud- in Esperanto, and trud- is a single Latin root with nothing to do with holes. It is a good example of the trap amara sets in the same chapter: Esperanto's word-building is so reliable that an unbuildable word can look built.
Reflexively, sin is to intrude - to push yourself in where you are not wanted. a is the adjective for a person who does it habitually, and netrudita describes something nobody forced on you. Next to it, devigi is the colder word: compels by authority, presses by nuisance.
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