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dansează

dances (he/she dances, or they dance) /danˈseazə/

verb#3109 most common

Also: is dancing

Example sentences

Ea dansează.
She dances.
Maria dansează în fiecare seară.
Maria dances every evening.
Copiii dansează la petrecere.
The children are dancing at the party.
El dansează foarte bine cu partenera lui.
He dances very well with his partner.
Deși e obosită, ea tot dansează până târziu în noapte.
Although she is tired, she still dances until late at night.
Cuplul dansează cu o eleganță care pare desprinsă dintr-un film vechi.
The couple dances with an elegance that seems taken from an old film.

Conjugation

Present ActiveSimple Past ActiveSimple Future Active
1sgdansezdansaivoi dansa
2sgdansezidansașivei dansa
3sgdanseazădansăva dansa
1pldansămdansarămvom dansa
2pldansațidansarățiveți dansa
3pldanseazădansarăvor dansa

Word family

dansa dance
a dansato dance (infinitive)
dansator / dansatoaremale / female dancer
dansant / dansantălively, danceable (e.g. muzică dansantă, dance music)

Etymology

The Romanian verb "a dansa" was borrowed from French "danser" in the nineteenth century, during a period when Romanian absorbed many French words tied to fashion, art, and social life. "Dansează" is simply the third-person present form of that verb, built by adding the native "-ează" ending to the root "dans-". The ultimate origin of French "danser" is debated among etymologists, with some tracing it to a Frankish root, but no reliable reconstruction is settled.

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