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mânca
to eat /mɨnˈka/
verb#350 most common
Also: to consume, to devour
Example sentences
Eu mănânc un măr.
I eat an apple.
Copilul mănâncă supă la prânz.
The child eats soup at lunch.
Am mâncat la un restaurant nou aseară.
I ate at a new restaurant last night.
Dacă ai mânca mai puține dulciuri, ai fi mai sănătos.
If you ate fewer sweets, you would be healthier.
Deși știa că nu ar trebui, a continuat să mănânce dulciuri până noaptea târziu.
Although he knew he shouldn't, he kept eating sweets until late at night.
Grija excesivă pentru aspectul mâncării face ca mulți să mănânce mai mult din ochi decât din foame.
Excessive concern for the look of food makes many people eat more with their eyes than out of hunger.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | mănânc | mâncai | voi mânca |
| 2sg | mănânci | mâncași | vei mânca |
| 3sg | mănâncă | mâncă | va mânca |
| 1pl | mâncăm | mâncarăm | vom mânca |
| 2pl | mâncați | mâncarăți | veți mânca |
| 3pl | mănâncă | mâncară | vor mânca |
Word family
mâncarefood, meal
mâncătoreater, one who eats
mâncateaten
mâncăcioshaving a big appetite, gluttonous
nemâncatunfed, hungry
Etymology
Mânca descends from Latin manducare, meaning to chew, which in Vulgar Latin came to mean simply to eat. The same Latin verb gave rise to the everyday word for eat in several other Romance languages, while Latin's own classical verb for eating, edere, largely died out. Romanian kept the sound changes typical of its own branch of Latin, turning manducare into mânca over centuries.
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