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deodată
suddenly /de.oˈda.tə/
adverb#2972 most common
Also: all at once, at the same time, simultaneously
Example sentences
Deodată a început să plouă.
Suddenly it started to rain.
Ne-am oprit deodată din mers.
We suddenly stopped walking.
Toți copiii au strigat deodată.
All the children shouted at once.
Deodată, luminile s-au stins și camera a rămas în întuneric.
Suddenly, the lights went out and the room was left in darkness.
Nu poți rezolva toate problemele deodată; ai nevoie de timp și răbdare.
You cannot solve all the problems at once; you need time and patience.
Deodată, îmi dădui seama că toată povestea pe care mi-o spusese fusese o minciună.
Suddenly, I realized that the whole story he had told me had been a lie.
Word family
Etymology
Deodată is built from three Romanian words fused into one: de (from), o (one), and dată (a time, an occurrence). Together they literally mean 'from one time', which shifted to 'at once' and then to 'suddenly'. Dată itself comes from Latin data, the feminine past participle of dare, 'to give', originally used for a 'given' point in time.
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