Learn Romanian › explodă
explodă
exploded /eksˈplodə/
verb#4728 most common
Also: burst, blew up
Example sentences
Balonul explodă cu un pocnet mare.
The balloon exploded with a loud bang.
Bomba explodă chiar înainte de miezul nopții.
The bomb exploded just before midnight.
Motorul mașinii explodă în timpul cursei și pilotul scăpă nevătămat.
The car's engine exploded during the race, and the driver came out unhurt.
Rezervorul de gaz explodă, iar incendiul se răspândi în tot cartierul.
The gas tank exploded, and the fire spread through the whole neighborhood.
Cronicarul povestește cum, în acea noapte, pulberăria explodă și zidurile cetății se prăbușiră.
The chronicler tells how, that night, the powder magazine exploded and the fortress walls collapsed.
Abia se stinsese ultimul foc de artificii când, spre groaza tuturor, un butoi cu praf de pușcă uitat în șopron explodă, zguduind din temelii casele vecine.
The last firework had barely died out when, to everyone's horror, a barrel of gunpowder forgotten in the shed exploded, shaking the neighboring houses to their foundations.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | explodez | explodai | voi exploda |
| 2sg | explodezi | explodași | vei exploda |
| 3sg | explodează | explodă | va exploda |
| 1pl | explodăm | explodarăm | vom exploda |
| 2pl | explodați | explodarăți | veți exploda |
| 3pl | explodează | explodară | vor exploda |
Word family
explozieexplosion
explozivexplosive
explodarethe act of exploding
neexplodatunexploded
explozibilexplosive materialEtymology
The verb comes from French "exploser," itself from Latin "explodere," built from "ex-" (out) and "plaudere" (to clap, to strike). In classical Latin the word first meant to drive an actor off the stage by clapping and hissing. Over centuries the sense shifted from noisy rejection to a violent, noisy burst, and Romanian borrowed the modern meaning directly.
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