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aici
here /aˈit͡ʃʲ/
adverb#37 most common
Also: over here, in this place, right here
Example sentences
Vino aici!
Come here!
Eu locuiesc aici.
I live here.
Aici este camera mea.
Here is my room.
De aici poți vedea tot orașul.
From here you can see the whole city.
Aici, unde ne-am cunoscut, vom construi o casă.
Here, where we met, we will build a house.
Aici zace adevărul pe care nimeni nu a vrut să-l recunoască.
Here lies the truth that no one wanted to acknowledge.
Word family
aiceahere (colloquial/regional variant)
icihere (used mainly in the pair ici-colo, "here and there")
de-aicifrom here
pe-aiciaround here, this way
până aiciup to here, this far
Etymology
Aici comes from Vulgar Latin eccum hic, a combination of the emphatic particle eccum ("behold") and hic ("this, here"). This same eccum prefix produced other Romanian place and time adverbs, such as acolo ("there") from eccum illoc and acum ("now") from eccum hora. The pattern shows Latin speakers reinforcing plain demonstratives with an emphatic marker, a change also seen elsewhere in the Romance languages.
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