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sortir.

to go out, to leave

6 characters2 syllables approx.Català language

Meaning & usage

verb[surˈti]Balearic, Central, Northern[soɾˈtiɾ]Valencia[sorˈti]Northwestern
  1. to go out, to leave

  2. to go out (to leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment)

  3. to come out, to appear, to emerge

    Ja li han sortit arrugues a la cara.
  4. to come out, to be published, to be made known

  5. to end up, to turn out

    sortir bé
  6. to manage to get out of a difficult situation successfully (requires a reflexive pronoun according the subject, and the appropriate form of the adverbial pronoun en)

    pronominal · reflexive
    Ho tenia difícil, però se'n va sortir prou bé
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Catalan sortir (compare Occitan sortir), from Latin sortīrī (“select”), probably influenced by surrectus (through a Vulgar Latin form *surctus and its derivatives, possibly through a verb *surrectīre, surctīre; cf. also Old Catalan surt, surta).

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