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apelă
he/she called /a.peˈlə/
verb#5562 most common
Also: he/she dialled (a number), he/she appealed to / resorted to
Example sentences
Ion apelă un prieten.
Ion called a friend.
Ea apelă repede numărul de urgență.
She quickly dialled the emergency number.
Bătrânul apelă la vecinii lui de fiecare dată când avea nevoie de ajutor.
The old man turned to his neighbors every time he needed help.
În roman, eroul apelă la un vechi prieten pentru a scăpa din impas.
In the novel, the hero appeals to an old friend to get out of trouble.
Speriat de zgomot, copilul apelă instinctiv la mama lui, strigând-o din toate puterile.
Frightened by the noise, the child instinctively called out to his mother, shouting for her with all his strength.
Cronicarul povestește cum, în ceasul cel mai greu al asediului, comandantul apelă la ultimele rezerve, redând astfel curaj oștenilor istoviți.
The chronicler recounts how, in the direst hour of the siege, the commander called upon the last reserves, thereby restoring courage to the exhausted soldiers.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | apelez | apelai | voi apela |
| 2sg | apelezi | apelași | vei apela |
| 3sg | apelează | apelă | va apela |
| 1pl | apelăm | apelarăm | vom apela |
| 2pl | apelați | apelarăți | veți apela |
| 3pl | apelează | apelară | vor apela |
Word family
apela call, an appeal
apelantappellant, the party who appeals
apelabilappealable (of a court decision)
inapelabilfinal, not open to appeal
apelativa term of address
Etymology
Apelă is a form of the verb a apela, which Romanian borrowed from French appeler in the modern period, itself descended from Latin appellare, meaning to address or call upon. Appellare is built from ad- (toward) and pellere (to drive, push), so the original sense was something like to drive a request toward someone. The specific form apelă is the third person singular of the simple past tense, a tense used mainly in narration.
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