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disperat
desperate /dis.peˈrat/
adjective#3224 most common
Also: despairing, frantic, in despair
Example sentences
Sunt disperat.
I am desperate.
Ea este disperată să găsească un loc de parcare.
She is desperate to find a parking spot.
Copilul plângea disperat după ce și-a pierdut jucăria.
The child cried desperately after losing his toy.
Disperați, locuitorii orașului au cerut ajutor internațional după inundații.
Desperate, the city's residents asked for international help after the floods.
Privirea ei disperată trăda o suferință pe care cuvintele nu o puteau exprima.
Her desperate look betrayed a suffering that words could not express.
Într-un gest disperat, guvernul a decis să impună starea de urgență, sperând să evite colapsul economic.
In a desperate gesture, the government decided to impose a state of emergency, hoping to avoid economic collapse.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | disperat (m) / disperată (f) | disperați (m) / disperate (f) |
| Genitive | disperat / disperată | disperați / disperate |
| Accusative | disperat / disperată | disperați / disperate |
| Vocative | disperatule / disperato | disperaților / disperatelor |
Word family
a disperato despair, to lose hope
disperaredespairdisperatădesperate (feminine form)
a sperato hope
speranțăhopeEtymology
Disperat comes from the Latin desperatus, the past participle of desperare, meaning to lose hope. That verb was built from the prefix de- (away, down) and sperare (to hope). Romanian inherited the whole family directly from spoken Latin: a spera (to hope), a dispera (to despair), and disperat (desperate) still sit side by side in the modern language.
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