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meargă
(that) he/she/it go, walk, or work (subjunctive of "a merge") /ˈme̯ar.ɡə/
verb#3382 most common
Also: (that) it function/run, (that) it proceed
Example sentences
El vrea să meargă acasă.
He wants to go home.
Sper să meargă totul bine mâine.
I hope everything goes well tomorrow.
Trebuie ca telefonul acesta să meargă tot timpul.
This phone has to work all the time.
Șeful a cerut ca proiectul să meargă mai departe fără întârziere.
The boss asked that the project move forward without delay.
Deși e stricată, mama insistă ca mașina să meargă până la service.
Even though it's broken, mom insists the car run as far as the shop.
Ar fi de dorit ca reforma să meargă mână în mână cu o schimbare de mentalitate.
It would be desirable for the reform to go hand in hand with a change in mindset.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | merg | mersei | voi merge |
| 2sg | mergi | merseși | vei merge |
| 3sg | merge | merse | va merge |
| 1pl | mergem | merserăm | vom merge |
| 2pl | mergeți | merserăți | veți merge |
| 3pl | merg | merseră | vor merge |
Word family
a mergeto go, walk, or work (infinitive)
mersgait, way of walkingmergerethe act of going
mergătorthat goes or moves (rare, dialectal)
Etymology
"Meargă" is the subjunctive form of "a merge," a verb that comes from Latin "mergere," meaning to dip or plunge. In Romanian the meaning shifted over time from "to sink" to "to go" or "to walk," a change linguists still debate but usually explain through folk associations with movement through water or mud. This is one of the clearest cases in Romanian where a Latin root kept its shape but changed its meaning almost entirely.
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