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mișcă
moves /ˈmiʃkə/
verb#677 most common
Also: move! (command, hurry up), he/she/it is moving
Example sentences
Copilul se mișcă.
The child is moving.
Mișcă mai repede, întârziem!
Move faster, we're running late!
Frunzele se mișcă ușor în bătaia vântului.
The leaves move gently in the breeze.
Mașina se mișcă greu prin trafic.
The car moves slowly through the traffic.
El mișcă piesa de șah fără să ezite.
He moves the chess piece without hesitating.
Nici un mușchi nu i se mișcă pe față când minte.
Not a single muscle on his face moves when he lies.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | mișc | mișcai | voi mișca |
| 2sg | mișți | mișcași | vei mișca |
| 3sg | mișcă | mișcă | va mișca |
| 1pl | mișcăm | mișcarăm | vom mișca |
| 2pl | mișcați | mișcarăți | veți mișca |
| 3pl | mișcă | mișcară | vor mișca |
Word family
mișcaremovement, motion
mișcatmoved; touched, emotionally affected
mișcătormoving, touching (emotionally)
nemișcatmotionless, still
Etymology
"Mișcă" is a form of the verb "a mișca", to move. Its ultimate origin is debated among Romanian etymologists, and it is usually listed as inherited from spoken Latin rather than borrowed later. Some scholars link it to a Vulgar Latin frequentative form built on the same base that gave Latin "movere", the ancestor of English "move" and "motion", though the exact chain of sound changes is not settled. Because the derivation is uncertain, dictionaries treat the precise Latin source as an open question rather than a fixed fact.
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