appartarsi
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[edit]appartàrsi (first-person singular present mi appàrto, first-person singular past historic mi appartài, past participle appartàto)
- reflexive of appartare
- to get away from others; to withdraw (oneself)
- appartarsi per parlargli ― to move aside to talk to him
- 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
- Chi non desiderava un posto in cui aver la libertà di appartarsi una volta ogni tanto?
- Everyone wanted a place where they could be alone occasionally.
- (literally, “Who didn't desire a place in which they could have the liberty to get away every once in a while?”)