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culcare
going to bed /kul.ˈka.re/
noun#1610 most common
Also: bedtime, lying down
Example sentences
Ora de culcare este la nouă.
Bedtime is at nine.
Copiii merg la culcare devreme.
The children go to bed early.
Înainte de culcare, citesc o carte.
Before bed, I read a book.
Rutina de culcare îi ajută pe copii să adoarmă mai ușor.
The bedtime routine helps children fall asleep more easily.
Medicul a recomandat o oră fixă de culcare pentru a reduce insomnia.
The doctor recommended a fixed bedtime to reduce insomnia.
Ritualul de culcare, respectat cu strictețe, a devenit pentru el o formă de meditație cotidiană.
The bedtime ritual, strictly observed, became for him a form of daily meditation.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | culcare | culcări |
| Genitive | culcări | culcărilor |
| Accusative | culcare | culcări |
| Vocative | culcare | culcări |
Word family
a culcato lay down, to put to bed
a se culcato lie down, to go to bed
culcatlying down, in bedculcușlair, cozy bed or nest
Etymology
Culcare is the long infinitive of the verb a culca, used in Romanian as an ordinary abstract noun, much like mâncare comes from a mânca. A culca descends from Latin collocare, meaning to place or lay down, a compound of con- and locare, itself from locus, place. Over time the Latin sense narrowed in Romanian to the specific act of lying down or putting someone to bed.
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