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bagă
puts in, shoves in (also used as an imperative: "put it in!") /ˈba.gə/
verb#2127 most common
Also: put it in! / stick it in! (imperative), watch out! (in the idiom bagă de seamă), butts in, meddles (reflexive se bagă)
Example sentences
Bagă cartea în geantă.
Put the book in the bag.
Copilul bagă jucăriile în cutie.
The child puts the toys in the box.
Bagă viteza a treia acum!
Shift into third gear now!
Bagă de seamă, treptele sunt ude.
Watch out, the steps are wet.
Se bagă mereu în vorbă, chiar dacă nu-l întreabă nimeni.
He always butts into the conversation, even when nobody asks him to.
Îi bagă frica-n oase de fiecare dată când ridică vocea.
He scares them stiff every time he raises his voice.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | bag | băgai | voi băga |
| 2sg | bagi | băgași | vei băga |
| 3sg | bagă | băgă | va băga |
| 1pl | băgăm | băgarăm | vom băga |
| 2pl | băgați | băgarăți | veți băga |
| 3pl | bagă | băgară | vor băga |
Word family
băgareinsertion, the act of putting in
băgatinserted, put in
băgăciosnosy, meddlesome
a se băgato butt in, to meddle
Etymology
"Bagă" is an inflected form of the verb "a băga" (to put in, insert, shove in). Romanian dictionaries list its origin as uncertain: some scholars propose a rare or regional Latin base, others treat it as part of the small layer of pre-Roman substrate words in Romanian, but no theory has won general acceptance. Because of this, no reliable Indo-European root or cross-language cognate can be stated with confidence.
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