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cumpăra
to buy /kumpəˈra/
verb#557 most common
Also: to purchase, to bribe (figurative: a cumpăra pe cineva)
Example sentences
Eu cumpăr pâine.
I buy bread.
Ea a cumpărat o rochie nouă.
She bought a new dress.
Vom cumpăra o casă anul viitor.
We will buy a house next year.
Dacă aș avea mai mulți bani, aș cumpăra o mașină nouă.
If I had more money, I would buy a new car.
Prețurile au crescut atât de mult încât mulți nu-și mai permit să cumpere alimente de bază.
Prices have risen so much that many can no longer afford to buy basic food.
Guvernul a fost acuzat că a încercat să cumpere tăcerea presei prin publicitate de stat.
The government was accused of trying to buy the press's silence through state advertising.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | cumpăr | cumpărai | voi cumpăra |
| 2sg | cumperi | cumpărași | vei cumpăra |
| 3sg | cumpără | cumpără | va cumpăra |
| 1pl | cumpărăm | cumpărarăm | vom cumpăra |
| 2pl | cumpărați | cumpărarăți | veți cumpăra |
| 3pl | cumpără | cumpărară | vor cumpăra |
Word family
cumpărător / cumpărătoarebuyer, customer
cumpărăturăa purchase; (plural) shopping, groceriescumpărarethe act of buying
răscumpărato buy back, redeem, ransom
necumpăratunbought; figuratively, incorruptible
Etymology
Cumpăra comes from Latin comparare, formed from com- (together) and par (equal). The original sense was to pair or match something as equal, which in trade meant to procure something in exchange for goods of equal value. In Vulgar Latin this shifted toward the general sense of obtaining something by paying, and Romanian kept that sense as its ordinary word for to buy.
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