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la
at /ˈla/
particle#14 most common
Also: to, in (a place), per
Example sentences
Mă duc la școală.
I'm going to school.
Cartea este la mine.
The book is with me.
Ne vedem la ora cinci.
We'll see each other at five o'clock.
La mulți ani!
Happy birthday! (lit. "to many years")
A stat la coadă două ore ca să cumpere bilete.
He stood in line for two hours to buy tickets.
La cât se ridică pierderile provocate de inundații, autoritățile încă nu au un răspuns clar.
As for how high the flood losses run, authorities still don't have a clear answer.
Word family
de lafrom
pe laaround, by way of
la revederegoodbye (lit. "to the seeing again")
la mulți anihappy birthday / many happy returns
Etymology
The preposition la descends from the Latin adverb illac, meaning "that way" or "over there," rather than from Latin ad, the source of the corresponding preposition in most other Romance languages. This gives Romanian a word for "at" or "to" with a different Latin ancestor than Italian a, French à, or Spanish a, even though the modern meanings largely overlap. It already appears with its core locative and directional sense in the earliest surviving Romanian texts.
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