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mărturisit
confessed /mər.tu.riˈsit/
verb#4542 most common
Also: admitted, professed, avowed
Example sentences
Ion a mărturisit adevărul.
Ion confessed the truth.
Ea și-a mărturisit greșeala profesorului.
She confessed her mistake to the teacher.
Copilul a mărturisit că a spart vasul.
The child confessed that he broke the vase.
Suspectul a mărturisit crima în fața poliției.
The suspect confessed to the crime in front of the police.
Deși nu voia să recunoască, în cele din urmă a mărturisit totul avocatului său.
Although he did not want to admit it, he eventually confessed everything to his lawyer.
Scriitorul și-a mărturisit, cu o sinceritate dezarmantă, toate temerile din tinerețe în memoriile sale.
The writer confessed, with disarming sincerity, all his youthful fears in his memoirs.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | mărturisesc | mărturisii | voi mărturisi |
| 2sg | mărturisești | mărturisiși | vei mărturisi |
| 3sg | mărturisește | mărturisi | va mărturisi |
| 1pl | mărturisim | mărturisirăm | vom mărturisi |
| 2pl | mărturisiți | mărturisirăți | veți mărturisi |
| 3pl | mărturisesc | mărturisiră | vor mărturisi |
Word family
a mărturisito confess, to admit
mărturietestimony, confession
mărturisirethe act of confessingmărturisitorconfessor, one who professes
nemărturisitunconfessed
Etymology
Mărturisit is the past participle of a mărturisi, a verb built on the noun mărturie, meaning testimony or witness account. Mărturie itself traces back to martor, witness, which came into Romanian from Latin martyr, itself borrowed from Greek. The verb-forming suffix -isi turned the noun mărturie into a verb, and the participial ending -t then gave mărturisit, literally something like testified or witnessed to, which settled into the sense of confessed.
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