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degrabă
quickly /deˈɡrabə/
adverb#1392 most common
Also: promptly, soon, rather (in the phrase mai degrabă)
Example sentences
Vino degrabă acasă!
Come home quickly!
Trebuie să plecăm degrabă.
We have to leave quickly.
Mai degrabă aș bea un ceai decât o cafea.
I would rather drink tea than coffee.
Vestea s-a răspândit degrabă în tot orașul.
The news spread quickly through the whole city.
Mai degrabă aș renunța la slujbă decât să mint pentru șeful meu.
I would rather quit my job than lie for my boss.
Se cuvine să acționăm cât mai degrabă, înainte ca situația să scape de sub control.
We ought to act as soon as possible, before the situation gets out of hand.
Word family
grabăhaste, hurrygrăbito hurry, to rushgrăbithurried, in a hurry
grabnicswift, prompt
mai degrabărather, sooner
Etymology
Degrabă is built from the preposition de ("of, from") plus grabă, a noun meaning "haste" or "hurry". Grabă entered Romanian from a Slavic source related to verbs meaning "to seize" or "to grab", a sense that shifted toward "speed" and "urgency" in Romanian. The compound de + grabă literally means "of haste", which became the adverb "quickly".
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