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mananca
eats /mə.ˈnɨn.kə/
verb#5712 most common
Also: is eating, eat! (imperative)
Example sentences
Copilul mănâncă un măr.
The child eats an apple.
Ea mănâncă la ora opt.
She eats at eight o'clock.
Câinele mănâncă din bolul lui.
The dog eats from its bowl.
Mănâncă tot ce se pune pe masă, fără să se plângă.
He eats everything put on the table, without complaining.
Deși nu îi place peștele, mănâncă din politețe atunci când e invitat la cină.
Although he does not like fish, he eats it out of politeness when invited to dinner.
Se zvonește că mănâncă doar alimente crude, convins fiind că astfel își prelungește viața.
It is rumored that he eats only raw food, convinced that this prolongs his life.
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
mâncateaten
mâncătoreater, one who eats a lot
mâncăcioshaving a big appetite
nemâncatunfed, hungry
Etymology
Mănâncă comes from the Romanian verb a mânca, which descends from Latin manducare, meaning to chew. Manducare gradually replaced the classical Latin verb edere as the everyday word for eating in spoken Latin, and it passed that role on to most Romance languages. The specific form mănâncă shows a regular Romanian sound change: the stressed root vowel shifts from a to the infixed â.
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