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atunci
then /aˈtunt͡ʃʲ/
adverb#87 most common
Also: at that time, in that case, well then
Example sentences
Atunci mergem acasă.
Then we go home.
Eram foarte tânăr atunci.
I was very young then.
Dacă plouă, atunci rămânem acasă.
If it rains, then we'll stay home.
Atunci când am ajuns, ploua deja.
When we arrived, it was already raining.
Abia atunci am înțeles cât de greșit am judecat situația.
Only then did I understand how wrongly I had judged the situation.
De atunci încoace, relațiile dintre cele două țări s-au schimbat radical.
Since then, relations between the two countries have changed radically.
Word family
atunceathen (older or regional variant of atunci)
de atuncisince then
până atunciuntil then
atunci cândwhen, at the time that
Etymology
Atunci descends from the Latin phrase ad tunc, built from ad (to, at) plus tunc (then). Latin tunc itself is tum (then) reinforced by the deictic particle -ce, the same pointing particle that shows up in many Romance demonstratives. Romanian kept this pattern for a whole set of place and time adverbs, so atunci sits alongside acum (now) and acolo (there) as one more ad-plus-deictic formation.
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