desplaça

In a sentence

• Ella es desplaça cada dia a la feina amb bicicleta.

  She commutes to work every day by bicycle.

  In this sentence, 'desplaça' is used reflexively ('es desplaça') to signify the act of moving oneself to another place, in this case, to work.

• El vent desplaça les fulles caigudes pels carrers.

  The wind moves the fallen leaves through the streets.

  Here, 'desplaça' is used in a transitive sense to indicate the action of moving some object (fallen leaves) caused by another agent (the wind).

• Quan hi ha un esdeveniment especial, la gent es desplaça al centre de la ciutat.

  When there is a special event, people move to the city center.

  Again, 'desplaça' is reflexive ('es desplaça') to express the act of people moving themselves to a specific location, in this context, the city center.