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citi
to read /t͡ʃiˈti/
verb#458 most common
Also: to read out loud, to interpret (e.g., palms, cards, a meter)
Example sentences
Eu citesc o carte.
I am reading a book.
Copilul citește o poveste în fiecare seară.
The child reads a story every evening.
Ieri am citit un articol interesant despre climă.
Yesterday I read an interesting article about the climate.
Profesorul ne-a cerut să citim romanul până vineri.
The teacher asked us to read the novel by Friday.
Dacă ai citi mai des, ți-ai îmbunătăți vocabularul.
If you read more often, you would improve your vocabulary.
Dacă aș fi citit mai atent instrucțiunile, nu aș fi greșit exercițiul.
If I had read the instructions more carefully, I would not have gotten the exercise wrong.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | citesc | citii | voi citi |
| 2sg | citești | citiși | vei citi |
| 3sg | citește | citi | va citi |
| 1pl | citim | citirăm | vom citi |
| 2pl | citiți | citirăți | veți citi |
| 3pl | citesc | citiră | vor citi |
Word family
citirereading (the act)
cititorreader
cititwell-read, literate
a recitito reread
citibilreadable, legible
Etymology
Romanian "citi" comes from a Slavic verb, Old Church Slavonic "čisti", which meant both "to read" and "to count" or "to honor". Romanian inherited it as part of the large layer of Slavic vocabulary absorbed after the Slavic migrations into the Balkans. The related noun "cinste" (honor), from the same Slavic root, shows how the original sense split into two separate Romanian words.
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