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descurcă
manages, gets by /desˈkurkə/
verb#3671 most common
Also: untangles, sorts out (literal), copes, handles (a problem)
Example sentences
Ea se descurcă bine la școală.
She does well (manages well) at school.
El descurcă rapid orice problemă tehnică.
He quickly sorts out any technical problem.
Nu-ți face griji, mama se descurcă singură acasă.
Don't worry, mom manages fine on her own at home.
Compania se descurcă greu în criza economică actuală.
The company is struggling to cope in the current economic crisis.
Deși nu are experiență, se descurcă surprinzător de bine în noul post.
Although she has no experience, she is coping surprisingly well in the new job.
Guvernul se descurcă cum poate cu resursele limitate pe care le are la dispoziție.
The government manages as best it can with the limited resources available to it.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | descurc | descurcai | voi descurca |
| 2sg | descurci | descurcași | vei descurca |
| 3sg | descurcă | descurcă | va descurca |
| 1pl | descurcăm | descurcarăm | vom descurca |
| 2pl | descurcați | descurcarăți | veți descurca |
| 3pl | descurcă | descurcară | vor descurca |
Word family
a se descurcato manage, cope, get by
descurcărețresourceful, good at coping
descurcărealăknack for getting by (colloquial)
încurcato tangle, to confuse, to mix up
încurcăturătangle, mess, mix-upEtymology
The verb comes from the prefix des- (undoing, apart) attached to încurca (to tangle, to mix up). Des- descends from Latin dis-, the same prefix seen across Romance languages marking reversal. The root of încurca is of debated origin and dictionaries do not agree on a single Latin source, so no further reconstruction is given here.
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