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Meaning of malamikigi | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2
malamiˈkiɡi

Definitions

  1. to make an enemy / enemies of, to make (someone) hostile, to turn (someone) against (another person)
    transitive
  2. to become enemies, to fall out
    intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Vladimir Varankin, Metropoliteno,”

But why, for example, do they agitate against religion? All that does is to make enemies of the peasants.

“Bertil Nilsson (translator), Orm la ruĝa (Röde Orm / The Long Ships) by Frans G. Bengtsson, Chapter 12,”

now you have made king Harald very hostile toward me, and as a result we have no protection in his realm.

“Edmond Privat, Federala Sperto, Ĉapitro 22,”

When there was a dispute between a large country and a small one, the delegate from a neutral country always received the same order from his government: “Support the small [country] insofar as possible, but do not turn the large one against us”

“Cezaro Rossetti, Kredu min, sinjorino! Ĉapitro 19,”

I don’t want to become your enemy. I would prefer for us always to remain friends.

“Sten Johansson (translator), “Signe” by Hjalmar Söderberg in La kiso kaj dek tri aliaj noveloj,”

One day we fell out, I quarrelled with her and called her a stupid woman

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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