No. 414 in Slovak
zomrel
"Zomrel" means "died" in English.
In a sentence
Môj starý otec zomrel minulý rok.
My grandfather died last year.
The word 'zomrel' refers to the past tense of 'to die' and is used here to state a fact about the speaker's grandfather.
Hrdina zomrel pri záchrane iných.
The hero died while saving others.
Here, 'zomrel' is used to describe an action that occurred in the past under a specific circumstance.
Keby nezomrel, mohol by nám ešte toľko príbehov vyrozprávať.
If he hadn't died, he could have told us so many more stories.
In this sentence, 'zomrel' is used in a conditional clause to discuss an event that could have impacted the present if it hadn't occurred.
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