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detecta
to detect /detekˈta/
verb#4525 most common
Also: to sense, to pick up (a signal, a trace)
Example sentences
Câinele poate detecta mirosuri de la mare distanță.
The dog can detect smells from far away.
Alarma detectează fum în bucătărie.
The alarm detects smoke in the kitchen.
Am reușit să detectăm o eroare în program.
We managed to detect an error in the program.
Radarul a detectat un avion la mare altitudine.
The radar detected a plane at high altitude.
Cercetătorii au detectat urme de apă pe planetă.
Researchers detected traces of water on the planet.
Sistemul este conceput să detecteze anomalii subtile înainte ca acestea să devină probleme majore.
The system is designed to detect subtle anomalies before they become major problems.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | detectez | detectai | voi detecta |
| 2sg | detectezi | detectași | vei detecta |
| 3sg | detectează | detectă | va detecta |
| 1pl | detectăm | detectarăm | vom detecta |
| 2pl | detectați | detectarăți | veți detecta |
| 3pl | detectează | detectară | vor detecta |
Word family
detectordetector (device)
detectarethe act of detecting, detection
detectabildetectable
nedetectatundetected
detectivdetective (separate borrowing, same Latin root)Etymology
The word entered Romanian in the 19th century as part of a wave of French and Latin borrowings that modernized Romanian scientific and technical vocabulary. It comes from French "détecter", which itself derives from Latin "detectus", the past participle of "detegere". That Latin verb combines "de-" (removing, undoing) with "tegere" (to cover), so the root sense is to uncover or expose.
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