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costa
to cost /kosˈta/
verb#989 most common
Also: to be worth (in price)
Example sentences
Cât costă acest tricou?
How much does this T-shirt cost?
Biletele costă zece lei.
The tickets cost ten lei.
Pe vremuri, o pâine costa doar câțiva bani.
Back then, a loaf of bread cost just a few cents.
Călătoria ne-a costat mai mult decât credeam.
The trip cost us more than we thought.
Dacă ar fi știut cât va costa reparația, nu ar mai fi cumpărat mașina.
If he had known how much the repair would cost, he would not have bought the car.
Neglijarea întreținerii preventive ne-a costat, în cele din urmă, o sumă considerabil mai mare decât dacă am fi investit din timp.
Neglecting preventive maintenance ultimately cost us a considerably larger sum than if we had invested early.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | cost | costai | voi costa |
| 2sg | costi | costași | vei costa |
| 3sg | costă | costă | va costa |
| 1pl | costăm | costarăm | vom costa |
| 2pl | costați | costarăți | veți costa |
| 3pl | costă | costară | vor costa |
Word family
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "a costa" from French "coûter" and Italian "costare" during the nineteenth-century push to re-Latinize and modernize its vocabulary. Both source words trace to Latin "constare", built from "con-" (together) and "stare" (to stand), which first meant to stand firm or to be settled. Over time the sense narrowed from "to be fixed at a value" to simply "to cost".
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