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cind
when /kɨnd/
adverb#2281 most common
Also: as, while, whenever
Example sentences
Când vii acasă?
When are you coming home?
Nu știu când ajunge trenul.
I don't know when the train arrives.
Îmi place să citesc când plouă.
I like to read when it rains.
Când eram copil, locuiam la țară.
When I was a child, I lived in the countryside.
Vom pleca atunci când toată lumea este pregătită.
We will leave when everyone is ready.
Nu-mi amintesc exact când a început totul, dar știu că a fost cândva în copilărie.
I don't remember exactly when it all began, but I know it was sometime in my childhood.
Word family
cândvasomeday, at some pointoricândanytime, whenever
de cândsince when, how long
până cânduntil when, how long
Etymology
Când comes from Latin quando, meaning "when" or "since". The Latin word already combined an interrogative stem with a temporal ending, and Romanian kept both its form and its double role as question word and connector. Under communist-era spelling rules (1953 to 1993), the word was written cînd, with î instead of â, though the pronunciation never changed.
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