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concentra
to concentrate /kon.tʃenˈtra/
verb#2965 most common
Also: to focus (reflexive: a se concentra), to bring together in one place
Example sentences
Mă concentrez.
I am concentrating.
Trebuie să te concentrezi la lecție.
You need to focus on the lesson.
Nu mă pot concentra din cauza zgomotului.
I can't concentrate because of the noise.
Ea s-a concentrat asupra proiectului toată ziua.
She focused on the project all day.
Guvernul a decis să concentreze resursele în regiunile afectate de secetă.
The government decided to concentrate resources in the drought-affected regions.
Deși zgomotul din jur era asurzitor, reușea să se concentreze pe fiecare detaliu al partiturii, de parcă restul lumii ar fi încetat să existe.
Although the surrounding noise was deafening, he managed to focus on every detail of the score, as if the rest of the world had stopped existing.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | concentrez | concentrai | voi concentra |
| 2sg | concentrezi | concentrași | vei concentra |
| 3sg | concentrează | concentră | va concentra |
| 1pl | concentrăm | concentrarăm | vom concentra |
| 2pl | concentrați | concentrarăți | veți concentra |
| 3pl | concentrează | concentrară | vor concentra |
Word family
concentrareconcentration, focusconcentratconcentrated; a concentrate
concentrațieconcentration (of a substance)
concentricconcentric
centrucenterEtymology
Romanian borrowed "a concentra" from French "concentrer" in the 19th century, during the period when Romanian actively imported vocabulary from French and Latin to modernize the language. The French verb itself comes from Latin "con-" (together) plus "centrum" (center), which Latin took from Greek "kentron" (a sharp point, the fixed point of a compass). The core image is bringing scattered things to a single center point.
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