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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 37 Complete Reading: Perfecve Verbs 219 / 600

krasti (krade, krao) impf. steal

Here the focus is on the process, and not on the completion. If the song had ukrala,

which is the past form of perf. steal, it would mean the angel lost the peace. I tried

to translate this difference with the English Past Continuous Tense. Pay attention

how the angel is in DL: literally, ‘stealing the peace to an angel’.

Besides, this song contains a number of poetic constructions which are very rare in

normal speech. For example, instead of expected sve kapi all drops, the order

adjective-noun is inverted; then, check the position of si² in the first verse, and so

on...

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