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curand
soon /kuˈrɨnd/
adverb#2999 most common
Also: shortly, before long
Example sentences
Vin curând.
I'm coming soon.
El pleacă curând acasă.
He is leaving for home soon.
Sper să te văd curând.
I hope to see you soon.
Vom afla curând rezultatele examenului.
We will find out the exam results soon.
Curând după aceea, situația s-a schimbat complet.
Soon after that, the situation changed completely.
Deși nimeni nu se aștepta, schimbările promise urmau să se producă mult mai curând decât anticipase oricine.
Although no one expected it, the promised changes were about to happen much sooner than anyone had anticipated.
Word family
a curgeto flow
curentcurrent; contemporarycursărace, route, flightcuriercourier
mai curândsooner; rather
Etymology
Curând comes from the Latin gerund currendum, formed from currere, 'to run'. The gerund originally meant 'running' or 'by running', and over time it narrowed to a temporal sense: something arriving at a run arrives soon. This shift from motion to time is common in language change.
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