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adică
that is (to say) /aˈdikə/
adverb#230 most common
Also: namely, I mean, in other words
Example sentences
Ea este sora mea, adică Maria.
She is my sister, that is, Maria.
Vin mâine, adică pe nouă august.
I'm coming tomorrow, that is, on August ninth.
Nu am mai mâncat de dimineață, adică mi-e foarte foame acum.
I haven't eaten since this morning, meaning I'm very hungry now.
Adică, tu chiar crezi că o să meargă planul ăsta?
I mean, do you really think this plan is going to work?
A promis că ne ajută, adică, dacă ne gândim mai bine, s-a angajat să termine treaba până vineri.
He promised to help us, that is, if we think about it more carefully, he committed to finishing the job by Friday.
Reforma a fost, ca să nu spunem prea mult, adică eufemistic vorbind, un dezastru administrativ.
The reform was, to put it mildly, that is, speaking euphemistically, an administrative disaster.
Word family
adicăteleacolloquial, often ironic emphatic version of adică
va să zicăso, that is to say (near-synonym discourse phrase)
cu alte cuvintein other words
mai exactmore precisely
Etymology
Romanian dictionaries trace adică not to Latin but to an Old Church Slavonic formation built on a verb meaning 'to say'. Romanian absorbed a number of discourse words this way from Slavic contact in the medieval period, even though its core grammar and vocabulary stayed Latin. Over time the borrowed phrase froze into a single invariable adverb used only to introduce a clarification or restatement.
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