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impotrivă
against /ɨmpoˈtrivə/
adverb#2869 most common
Also: opposed, in opposition, contrary
Example sentences
Eu sunt împotrivă.
I am against it.
Ea nu vrea să vină, este împotrivă.
She doesn't want to come, she is against it.
Am votat împotrivă la ședință.
I voted against at the meeting.
Deși toți erau de acord, el a rămas împotrivă.
Although everyone agreed, he remained against it.
Publicul s-a declarat împotrivă, chiar dacă argumentele oficiale păreau solide.
The public declared itself against it, even though the official arguments seemed solid.
Într-o lume în care conformismul e regula, a rămâne împotrivă cere curaj.
In a world where conformity is the rule, staying opposed takes courage.
Word family
împotrivaagainst (governs genitive)
a se împotrivito oppose, to resist
împotrivireopposition, resistance
a potrivito match, to adjust
potrivitsuitable, fittingEtymology
Romanian formed this word from the prefix în- ("in, into") attached to potrivă, a root borrowed from Slavic during the medieval period. The Slavic root meant "opposite" or "against", and it also gave Romanian the verb a potrivi ("to match, to adjust"), whose original sense was closer to "to set opposite" before it shifted toward "to fit". The result, împotrivă, kept the older adversarial meaning intact.
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