Meaning of alti | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to be high, be tall
   intransitive
2. to stand high, tower, loom, rise (over / above something)
   intransitive
3. to be of (such-and-such) a height, be (so) tall
   ambitransitive

Examples

“Bertil Nilsson (translator), La Volo de l’Ĉielo by Artur Lundkvist,”

… for the first time he saw … trees that were so tall that they seemed to reach among the clouds.

“La monto altas super la urbo.”

The mountain looms over the city.

“Sergio Pokrovskij (translator), La Majstro kaj Margarita (The Master and Margarita) by Mikhail Bulgakov, Part 2, Chapter 24,”

The pages mutilated by the fire lay before her, and next to them rose a stack of untouched manuscripts. (Mirra Ginsburg translation, Grove, 1995)

“La muro altas kvar metrojn.”

The wall is four metres high.

“1980, Johán Valano (Claude Piron), Ĉu li venis trakosme? Chapter 27, Ksandro altis preskaŭ same, kiel la ĵus vidita, sed li aspektis tute aliel.”

Xandro was nearly the same height as the person [he had] just seen, but he looked completely different.

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