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bloca
to block /bloˈka/
verb#996 most common
Also: to jam, to stall, to freeze (reflexive: a se bloca)
Example sentences
El blochează intrarea cu o cutie.
He blocks the entrance with a box.
Nu bloca drumul, te rog!
Don't block the road, please!
Poliția a blocat strada pentru reparații.
The police blocked the street for repairs.
Dacă blochezi acest cont, nu vei mai primi mesaje de la el.
If you block this account, you will no longer receive messages from him.
Sistemul se blochează automat după trei încercări greșite.
The system automatically locks up after three wrong attempts.
Deputații au încercat să blocheze adoptarea legii prin depunerea a sute de amendamente.
The deputies tried to block the law's passage by filing hundreds of amendments.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | blochez | blocai | voi bloca |
| 2sg | blochezi | blocași | vei bloca |
| 3sg | blochează | blocă | va bloca |
| 1pl | blocăm | blocarăm | vom bloca |
| 2pl | blocați | blocarăți | veți bloca |
| 3pl | blochează | blocară | vor bloca |
Word family
blocblock, apartment building, block of material
blocajblockage, roadblock, mental block
blocatblocked, stuck, frozen
deblocareact of unblocking
a deblocato unblock
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "a bloca" from French "bloquer" during the 19th-century modernization of the language, when many everyday and technical verbs entered Romanian through French. The French verb itself traces back to the noun "bloc" (a solid mass or log), which came from Frankish and other Germanic sources. The underlying idea, a heavy mass obstructing passage, still shapes the Romanian sense of stopping something from moving or proceeding.
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