Infinitive
fortreni
Forms
Tenses
| Present | fortrenas |
| Past | fortrenis |
| Future | fortrenos |
| Conditional | fortrenus |
| Imperative | fortrenu! |
Participles
| Active past | fortreninta |
| Active present | fortrenanta |
| Active future | fortrenonta |
| Passive past | fortrenita |
| Passive present | fortrenta |
| Passive future | fortrenota |
Etymology
From for (“away”) + treni (“drag”).
Sample Sentences
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, tr. L. L. Zamenhof, Act IV, scene 1:
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Hamleto en atako de frenezo
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Mortigis Polonion kaj fortrenis
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Kun si la korpon de la mortigito
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Hamlet in an attack of insanity
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Killed Polonius and dragged off
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With him the body of the dead
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Brothers Grimm, "Sesope oni trairas la tutan mondon" (English title: "How Six Made Their Way in the World"), tr. Kabe:
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"Kiom da oro li fortrenos!"
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"What a large amount of gold he'll drag off!"
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Edmund Privat, "La Tempo":
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Forkuras la tempo, forflugas senfine
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Neniam trafante l'estonton celatan.
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Ĝi vivon la nian fortrenas obstine
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Kaj ŝovas nin kvazaŭ ŝafaron pelatan.
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The time runs away, endlessly flies away
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Never reaching the targeted future.
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It stubbornly drags away our life
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And shoves us like a herd of sheep being expelled.
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