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ca
as / like /ka/
particle#27 most common
Also: than, as if (in "ca și cum"), in the capacity of
Example sentences
Ea este la fel de înaltă ca mine.
She is as tall as me.
El lucrează ca profesor.
He works as a teacher.
Casa lui e mai mare ca a mea.
His house is bigger than mine.
Se poartă ca un copil răsfățat.
He behaves like a spoiled child.
Ca reprezentant al companiei, trebuie să semnezi contractul.
As a representative of the company, you must sign the contract.
Totul s-a petrecut ca și cum nimic nu s-ar fi întâmplat.
Everything happened as if nothing had happened.
Word family
ca săin order to
ca șias well as / practically
ca și cumas if
precumjust as / such as (near-synonym)decâtthan (formal alternative in comparatives)Etymology
Romanian "ca" descends from Latin "quam", the word used in Latin comparative constructions such as "maior quam" (bigger than). Over time it lost its final consonant and narrowed to the single syllable "ca", keeping its core job of linking two compared terms. It now covers both similarity ("as, like") and comparison ("than"), and combines with other particles to form "ca să" (in order to) and "ca și cum" (as if).
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