Talk:faliĝi

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I think the editor who created this meant to type faligi and added the diacritic absentmindedly. Mr. Granger (talk) 20:46, 16 October 2013 (UTC)


 * It wasn't hard to find 5 cites, including two apparently independent ones from drama saying "li faliĝas sur seĝon". I also found at least one cite saying we do not write this, so a usage note may be in order, but it is citable.--Prosfilaes (talk) 02:09, 18 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Your second cite looks like a typo for "faligi", considering it's being used transitively and appears to mean "lower". But the other four seem perfectly convincing to me. Mr. Granger (talk) 02:16, 18 October 2013 (UTC)


 * But is the definition correct? It is -igi, not -iĝi, that has the definition “to cause to be”. — Ungoliant (Falai) 09:04, 18 October 2013 (UTC)


 * That's true...maybe "to begin to fall" would be a better definition. Especially based on the citations. Mr. Granger (talk) 14:57, 18 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Passed then. — Ungoliant (Falai) 15:02, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Deleted the one example as a clear error.

"Begin to fall" isn't really it either. That's sometimes the implication, but not necessarily. Another implication is that it's to fall without an outside agent: to fall by oneself (that is, the chair didn't trip her, no-one pushed her), but that's not necessarily the case either. A bit like "fall" vs "fall down" in English, which is a rather ambiguous distinction. kwami (talk) 05:42, 20 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Speaking of which, ekfali (begin to fall) should be is quite attestable too. Added it too. ~ Röbin Liönheart (talk) 19:53, 22 October 2013 (UTC)