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luaț
take (you all take / take!) /luˈat͡sʲ/
verb#721 most common
Also: you all take, taken (in passive constructions)
Example sentences
Luați loc, vă rog.
Please take a seat.
Voi luați autobuzul de la ora șapte?
Do you all take the bus at seven o'clock?
Luați umbrela, plouă afară!
Take the umbrella, it's raining outside!
Când ajungeți la magazin, luați și pâine, vă rog.
When you get to the store, please take some bread too.
Dacă luați medicamentul seara, efectele apar mai repede.
If you take the medicine in the evening, the effects show up faster.
Luați aminte la ce vă spun, căci vremurile se schimbă repede.
Pay heed to what I'm telling you, because times change quickly.
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
Etymology
Romanian "a lua" descends from Latin "levare", which meant to lift or raise. In spoken Latin the verb drifted toward the sense of picking something up and carrying it off, and Romanian kept that later meaning as its everyday word for "to take". The form "luați" adds the ending that marks the second person plural, shared by the present tense and the imperative.
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