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către
toward /ˈkə.tre/
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Also: to, by (in "de către", passive agent)
Example sentences
Ea merge către casă.
She is walking toward home.
Trenul pleacă către ora nouă.
The train leaves around nine o'clock.
Am trimis un pachet către bunica mea.
I sent a package to my grandmother.
Privirile tuturor s-au îndreptat către scenă.
Everyone's eyes turned toward the stage.
Scrisoarea este adresată către conducerea firmei.
The letter is addressed to the company's management.
Legea a fost adoptată de către parlament.
The law was passed by parliament.
Word family
de cătreby (marks the agent in a passive construction)
înspretoward, in the direction of (near-synonym)spretoward (shorter, more common synonym)contraagainst, versus (later borrowing from the same Latin word)Etymology
Romanian dictionaries trace "către" to the Latin preposition "contra", which originally meant "against" or "facing". Over time in popular Latin and early Romanian, the sense shifted from confrontation to simple orientation, giving the modern meaning "toward". The sound changes from Latin "contra" to Romanian "către" (loss of the nasal, vowel shift to ă) follow regular patterns seen elsewhere in the language's development from Latin.
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