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fumez

I smoke /fuˈmez/

verb#4487 most common

Also: I am smoking

Example sentences

Eu fumez o țigară.
I smoke a cigarette.
Nu fumez în casă.
I don't smoke in the house.
Fumezi prea mult în ultima vreme.
You've been smoking too much lately.
De când fumez, tușesc mai des dimineața.
Since I started smoking, I cough more often in the morning.
Dacă aș fi știut cât de greu e să te lași, nu aș fi început să fumez.
If I had known how hard it is to quit, I wouldn't have started smoking.
Deși medicul mi-a spus să renunț, încă fumez pe ascuns, mai mult din obișnuință decât din plăcere.
Although the doctor told me to quit, I still smoke in secret, more out of habit than pleasure.

Conjugation

Present ActiveSimple Past ActiveSimple Future Active
1sgfumezfumaivoi fuma
2sgfumezifumașivei fuma
3sgfumeazăfumăva fuma
1plfumămfumarămvom fuma
2plfumațifumarățiveți fuma
3plfumeazăfumarăvor fuma

Word family

fumsmoke
a fumato smoke (infinitive)
fumătorsmoker
fumatthe act of smoking
afumatsmoked, cured with smoke

Etymology

Fumez is the first person singular present of a fuma, borrowed from French fumer, itself from Latin fumare, a verb built on fumus, meaning smoke. The Latin noun fumus traces back to a Proto-Indo-European root for smoke or vapor. Romanian kept the native descendant of fumus as the noun fum, and layered the French-style verb fuma on top of it in the modern period.

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