Dictionary formfugio, fugere, fugi, fugitum

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Translation

to flee, run away; to avoid, shun

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Examples

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The enemy fled out of the city.

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The boy fell as he fled.

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I do not shirk hard work.

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He could no longer flee.

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It does not escape me what you want.

Fugio, fugere, fugi, fugitum, third conjugation of the -io type, so it inflects like capio: fugio, fugis, fugit, fugimus, fugitis, fugiunt, with the i reappearing in fugiunt and in the participle fugiens.

Three constructions. Intransitive, "flee", usually with ex or ab and the ablative. Transitive, "run away from, avoid", with a plain accusative - fugere laborem is to dodge the work, not to run away from a job site. And impersonal, me fugit, "it escapes me, I do not know", which is idiomatic and common. Watch the pair fugit and fugit: present and perfect differ only in vowel length, written here without macrons, so the surrounding tenses have to tell you. Family: fuga "flight", fugax "fleeting", fugio's compounds effugio and refugio, and English fugitive, refuge, subterfuge and centrifugal.

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This word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 6: fugio, praesentia, scelus and 7 more words.