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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 ActiveSimple Past ActiveSimple Future Active
1sgmișcmișcaivoi mișca
2sgmișțimișcașivei mișca
3sgmișcămișcăva mișca
1plmișcămmișcarămvom mișca
2plmișcațimișcarățiveți mișca
3plmișcămișcarăvor 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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