No. 8,623 in Catalan
empresonats
"Empresonats" means "imprisoned" in English.
In a sentence
Els pirates van ser empresonats després de la batalla.
The pirates were imprisoned after the battle.
The word 'empresonats' indicates that the pirates were captured and placed in prison, serving as a past participle describing their condition.
Els empresonats esperen amb impaciència el judici.
The imprisoned await the trial eagerly.
Here, 'empresonats' functions as a noun and refers to the group of individuals who have been imprisoned.
Estaven empresonats en una cel·la petita per mesos.
They were imprisoned in a small cell for months.
In this sentence, 'empresonats' is part of a verb phrase in the past tense, describing the state of being kept in a jail.
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