Learn Romanian › alege
alege
to choose /aˈleʤe/
verb#722 most common
Also: to select, to pick, to elect
Example sentences
Eu aleg o carte.
I choose a book.
Ea alege o floare din grădină.
She picks a flower from the garden.
Trebuie să alegem un restaurant pentru cină.
We need to choose a restaurant for dinner.
Copiii au ales să meargă la mare în vacanță.
The children chose to go to the seaside for their vacation.
Poporul îl va alege pe noul președinte în noiembrie.
The people will elect the new president in November.
Dacă ai fi ales altă cale, poate lucrurile ar fi stat altfel.
If you had chosen another path, maybe things would have turned out differently.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | aleg | alesei | voi alege |
| 2sg | alegi | aleseși | vei alege |
| 3sg | alege | alese | va alege |
| 1pl | alegem | aleserăm | vom alege |
| 2pl | alegeți | aleserăți | veți alege |
| 3pl | aleg | aleseră | vor alege |
Word family
Etymology
Alege comes from Latin allegere, a combination of the prefix ad- and the verb legere, which meant to gather, pick out, or read. The same root, with a different prefix, gave Romanian culege, meaning to harvest or gather. Through Latin and French borrowings, that same root also produced English words such as elect and select. The core idea, picking one thing out from several, has held steady for two thousand years.
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