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altundeva
somewhere else /altunˈdeva/
adverb#3725 most common
Also: elsewhere, in another place
Example sentences
Cartea mea nu e aici, e altundeva.
My book isn't here, it's somewhere else.
Hai să mergem altundeva, aici e prea zgomotos.
Let's go somewhere else, it's too noisy here.
Dacă nu găsești loc de parcare aici, caută altundeva.
If you can't find a parking spot here, look somewhere else.
În timpul ședinței, gândurile lui erau altundeva.
During the meeting, his thoughts were elsewhere.
Ar fi vrut să fie altundeva, departe de toată agitația asta.
He would have liked to be somewhere else, far from all this commotion.
Se pare că vina pentru eșecul proiectului trebuie căutată altundeva decât în echipa noastră.
It seems the blame for the project's failure must be sought elsewhere than in our team.
Word family
Etymology
Altundeva is a native Romanian formation, not a borrowing. It joins alt, meaning "other" and descending from Latin alter, with undeva, meaning "somewhere." Undeva itself is built from unde, "where" (from Latin unde), plus the indefinite suffix -va, which also shows up in ceva ("something") and cineva ("someone"). The result reads almost transparently as "other-somewhere," that is, "elsewhere."
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