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dispune
to have at one's disposal /disˈpune/
verb#1635 most common
Also: to order/decree, to arrange, to have available
Example sentences
El dispune de mulți bani.
He has a lot of money at his disposal.
Nu dispun de timp liber azi.
I don't have any free time available today.
Compania dispune de resurse suficiente pentru proiect.
The company has sufficient resources for the project.
Instanța a dispus arestarea preventivă a suspectului.
The court ordered the pretrial detention of the suspect.
Legea dispune ca toți cetățenii să respecte aceste reguli.
The law decrees that all citizens must follow these rules.
Așa cum dispusese testamentul, averea a fost împărțită între moștenitori.
As the will had decreed, the fortune was divided among the heirs.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | dispun | dispusei | voi dispune |
| 2sg | dispui | dispuseși | vei dispune |
| 3sg | dispune | dispuse | va dispune |
| 1pl | dispunem | dispuserăm | vom dispune |
| 2pl | dispuneți | dispuserăți | veți dispune |
| 3pl | dispun | dispuseră | vor dispune |
Word family
dispozițiedisposition, mood, or an official decreedispozitivdevice, mechanism
dispuswilling, inclined, disposed
dispunerearrangement, layout
indispusunwell, out of sorts
Etymology
Dispune entered Romanian as a learned borrowing from French disposer during the 19th-century modernization of the language, when many Latin-based Romance words replaced or supplemented older Slavic and Turkish terms. It ultimately traces to Latin disponere, from dis- (apart, in different directions) plus ponere (to put, place). Romanian already had the native descendant of ponere in a pune (to put), so dispune sits alongside it as a related but separately borrowed form.
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