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near, beside, next to /ˈlɨŋgə/
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Also: by, close to, alongside
Example sentences
Pisica doarme lângă mine.
The cat sleeps next to me.
Magazinul este lângă farmacie.
The store is next to the pharmacy.
Stăteam lângă fereastră când a început ploaia.
I was standing by the window when the rain started.
A parcat mașina lângă gardul vecinului, ceea ce l-a supărat.
He parked the car next to the neighbor's fence, which annoyed him.
Așezată lângă șemineu, își amintea de copilăria petrecută la țară.
Seated by the fireplace, she remembered her childhood spent in the countryside.
Deși locuiau unul lângă altul de ani de zile, abia acum au început să se cunoască cu adevărat.
Although they had lived next to each other for years, only now did they truly start to get to know one another.
Word family
lunglonglungimelength
a lungito lengthen, to stretch out
alăturibeside, next to (near-synonym, different root)Etymology
Lângă is a preposition inherited from Latin longe, an adverb that meant far away. Over time its meaning flipped to the opposite sense, near or beside, a shift some etymologists explain through ironic or minimizing use in everyday speech, similar to how English speakers sometimes use far in loose, contradictory ways. This kind of meaning reversal is rare but documented in Romanian's evolution from Latin. The word kept its Latin phonetic core while gaining a nasal vowel typical of Romanian sound changes.
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