No. 2,886 in Catalan
dormir
To sleep.
In a sentence
Necessito dormir almenys vuit hores cada nit.
I need to sleep at least eight hours every night.
Here, 'dormir' is used as a verb in its infinitive form, meaning 'to sleep', representing an action or necessity.
Ahir a la nit no vaig poder dormir perquè hi havia molt soroll.
Last night, I couldn't sleep because there was a lot of noise.
In this sentence, 'dormir' indicates the action of sleeping, specifying an event that took place or was attempted.
Molts animals dormen durant el dia i estan actius a la nit.
Many animals sleep during the day and are active at night.
Here, 'dormen' is the present tense conjugation of 'dormir' for third-person plural, referring to habitual or ongoing actions.
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