Learn Romanian › luăm
luăm
we take /luˈəm/
verb#569 most common
Also: we're taking, let's take, we get
Example sentences
Noi luăm autobuzul în fiecare dimineață.
We take the bus every morning.
Luăm masa împreună duminică.
We have dinner together on Sunday.
Dacă plouă, luăm umbrela.
If it rains, we take the umbrella.
Hai să luăm o pauză de zece minute.
Let's take a ten-minute break.
Luăm decizia finală abia după ce analizăm toate ofertele primite.
We make the final decision only after we analyze all the offers received.
Este esențial să luăm în considerare toate implicațiile juridice înainte de a semna contractul.
It is essential that we take into account all the legal implications before signing the contract.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | iau | luai | voi lua |
| 2sg | iei | luași | vei lua |
| 3sg | ia | luă | va lua |
| 1pl | luăm | luarăm | vom lua |
| 2pl | luați | luarăți | veți lua |
| 3pl | iau | luară | vor lua |
Word family
a luato take
luattakenluarethe act of taking
preluaretakeover, acquisition
a reluato resume, take up again
Etymology
Luăm is the first person plural present form of the verb a lua, meaning to take. The verb descends from Latin levare, which originally meant to lift or raise, and shifted in Romanian to the broader sense of taking or picking something up. The irregular stem change between iau and luăm reflects old Latin stress patterns, where the stressed and unstressed forms of the same verb drifted apart over time.
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