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știut

known /ʃtiˈut/

adjective#583 most common

Also: found out, familiar (to someone)

Example sentences

Este un lucru știut.
It's a known thing.
Rezultatul era deja știut.
The result was already known.
Poveștile acestea sunt bine știute în sat.
These stories are well known in the village.
Poetul, bine știut în epocă, a murit sărac.
The poet, well known in his time, died poor.
Adevărul, oricât de neplăcut, trebuie să rămână știut de toți cei implicați.
The truth, however unpleasant, must remain known to everyone involved.
Deznodământul, mult prea știut dinainte pentru a mai stârni vreo surpriză, a dezamăgit criticii.
The ending, far too well known beforehand to spark any surprise, disappointed the critics.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeștiutștiuți
Genitiveștiutștiuți
Accusativeștiutștiuți
Vocativeștiutștiuți

Word family

a știto know
științăscience, knowledge
științificscientific
neștiutunknown, obscure
știrenews item, piece of information

Etymology

Știut is the past participle of a ști, "to know", a verb Romanian inherited straight from Latin scire. Most other Romance languages built their "to know" verb from Latin sapere instead (French savoir, Italian sapere), so Romanian's ști is an outlier. Latin scire itself goes back to the Proto-Indo-European root for cutting or separating, the idea being that to know something is to distinguish it clearly from other things.

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