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disparut

disappeared / missing /dis.pəˈrut/

adjective#3499 most common

Also: missing, vanished, presumed dead

Example sentences

Pisica mea a dispărut.
My cat has disappeared.
Cheile mele au dispărut de pe masă.
My keys disappeared from the table.
Poliția caută o fată dispărută de trei zile.
The police are looking for a girl who has been missing for three days.
Multe specii de animale au dispărut din cauza schimbărilor climatice.
Many animal species have disappeared because of climate change.
Documentul, considerat dispărut, a fost găsit într-o arhivă veche.
The document, thought to be lost, was found in an old archive.
Civilizația dispărută a lăsat în urmă doar ruine acoperite de nisip.
The vanished civilization left behind only ruins covered in sand.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativedispărut / dispărutădispăruți / dispărute
Genitivedispărutului / dispăruteidispăruților / dispărutelor
Accusativedispărut / dispărutădispăruți / dispărute
Vocativedispărutule / dispărutodispăruților / dispărutelor

Word family

a dispăreato disappear
disparițiedisappearance
dispărânddisappearing
a apăreato appear (related root without dis-)

Etymology

Dispărut is the past participle of a dispărea, "to disappear." The verb comes from Latin disparere, built from the prefix dis- ("apart, away") and parere, "to appear, be visible." The same Latin root, without the prefix, also gave Romanian a apărea, "to appear."

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