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merge
to go /ˈmer.dʒe/
verb#58 most common
Also: to work, to function (of a device or plan), to be all right, to be acceptable (colloquial)
Example sentences
Maria merge la piață în fiecare zi.
Maria goes to the market every day.
Autobuzul merge foarte încet astăzi.
The bus is moving very slowly today.
Cum merge treaba la noul job?
How's it going at the new job?
Nu știu de ce, dar imprimanta nu mai merge.
I don't know why, but the printer doesn't work anymore.
Chiar dacă drumul e greu, trebuie să mergem mai departe.
Even if the road is hard, we have to keep going.
Merge și așa, dacă nu găsim o soluție mai bună până mâine.
It's fine to do it this way too, if we don't find a better solution by tomorrow.
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
merswalking, gait; the running/functioning of something
mersul trenurilortrain schedule (literally "the going of the trains")
premergătorpreceding; a forerunner or precursor
a merge mai departeto carry on, to keep going
Etymology
Romanian "a merge" comes from Latin "mergere," which meant to dip or plunge into water. Over time in Romanian the sense shifted from submerging to moving forward, and eventually settled on the plain meaning of going or walking. This is one of the clearest cases in Romanian of a verb changing its core meaning while keeping the Latin form almost intact.
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