No. 144 in Lithuanian
mirė
"Mirė" in English means "died."
In a sentence
Jis mirė pernai.
He died last year.
Here, 'mirė' is used as a past tense verb to describe the act of someone passing away.
Gėlė mirė, nes ją pamiršome palaistyti.
The flower died because we forgot to water it.
'Mirė' is used to describe the end of life or vitality, in this case, of a plant.
Kai telefonas mirė, negalėjau nieko padaryti.
When the phone died, I couldn't do anything.
The word 'mirė' here figuratively expresses that an object (a phone) stopped functioning.
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