Learn Romanian › culcat
culcat
lying down /kulˈkat/
adjective#1613 most common
Also: laid down, flattened (of crops, by wind or rain), recumbent
Example sentences
Pisica este culcată pe pat.
The cat is lying on the bed.
M-am culcat devreme aseară.
I went to bed early last night.
Câinele stă culcat lângă ușă.
The dog lies next to the door.
Bolnavul trebuie să stea culcat câteva zile, potrivit medicului.
The patient must stay lying down for a few days, according to the doctor.
Ea era culcată pe canapea, citind o carte, când am sunat-o.
She was lying on the couch, reading a book, when I called her.
Deși grâul rămăsese culcat la pământ din cauza furtunii, fermierii au reușit să salveze o parte din recoltă.
Although the wheat had remained flattened on the ground because of the storm, the farmers managed to save part of the harvest.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | culcat (m) / culcată (f) | culcați (m) / culcate (f) |
| Genitive | culcat (m) / culcată (f) | culcați (m) / culcate (f) |
| Accusative | culcat (m) / culcată (f) | culcați (m) / culcate (f) |
| Vocative | culcat (m) / culcată (f) | culcați (m) / culcate (f) |
Word family
a (se) culcato lay down; to lie down, go to bed
culcarethe act of lying down, bedtimeculcușden, lair, nest-like bed
necuclatnot lain down (rare, mostly literary)
Etymology
Culcat is the past participle of the verb a culca, and of its reflexive form a se culca, meaning to lay something down or, reflexively, to lie down and go to bed. The verb comes from Latin collocare, to place or put in position, a compound of com- (together) and locare (to place), itself from locus (place). Sound changes in spoken Latin and early Romanian wore collocare down to culca, and the meaning narrowed from general placing to the specific act of lying down or being put to bed.
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