borti
prepositionpreposisjonagainst · in contact with · over in
Senses and Example SentencesBetydning og bruk
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i kontakt med, i berøring med
in contact with, touching
- han har det med å dumpe borti ting he has a habit of bumping into things
- hun har vært borti litt av hvert she has come across all sorts of things
- komme borti noen to brush against someone
som adverb: used as an adverb:- det verste jeg har vært borti the worst thing I have ever come across
- sneie så vidt borti to graze it ever so slightly
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borte i
over in, off in
- langt borti skogen far off in the woods
Set phrasesFaste uttrykk
legge seg bort i/borti
blande seg (utidig) inn i
to meddle (unduly) in, to interfere in
Eng. phraseto stick one's nose in
- de hadde vett til å ikke legge seg borti andres saker they had the sense not to meddle in other people's affairs
- hun la seg alltid bort i andres problem she was always interfering in other people's problems