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eu

I /jew/

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Also: me (in emphatic or contrastive use)

Example sentences

Eu sunt fericit.
I am happy.
Eu sunt din România.
I am from Romania.
Eu merg la școală în fiecare zi.
I go to school every day.
Cred că eu am dreptate în privința asta.
I think I am right about this.
Eu, unul, nu sunt de acord cu decizia lor.
As for me, I do not agree with their decision.
Chiar dacă eu aș fi vrut să plec, nu aș fi putut, din cauza vremii.
Even if I had wanted to leave, I would not have been able to, because of the weather.

Word family

mieto me (dative)
mineme (accusative/prepositional)
mă / m-me (unstressed accusative clitic)
îmi / mi-to me (unstressed dative clitic)
al meu / a meamine / my

Etymology

Eu descends from Latin ego, the first person singular pronoun. Sound changes typical of Romanian dropped the medial consonant and reshaped the vowels, turning ego into eu over centuries of spoken use. The word has stayed in constant everyday use since Roman times in the region.

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