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modifica
to modify /mo.di.fiˈka/
verb#3278 most common
Also: to change, to alter, to amend
Example sentences
Vreau să modific ora întâlnirii.
I want to change the time of the meeting.
El modifică programul în fiecare săptămână.
He modifies the schedule every week.
Am modificat contractul înainte de a-l semna.
I modified the contract before signing it.
Guvernul a decis să modifice legea privind taxele.
The government decided to amend the tax law.
Dacă am fi modificat planul mai devreme, am fi evitat problemele.
If we had modified the plan earlier, we would have avoided the problems.
Proiectul de lege care modifică Codul Penal a fost adoptat după dezbateri îndelungate.
The bill that amends the Penal Code was passed after lengthy debates.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | modific | modificai | voi modifica |
| 2sg | modifici | modificași | vei modifica |
| 3sg | modifică | modifică | va modifica |
| 1pl | modificăm | modificarăm | vom modifica |
| 2pl | modificați | modificarăți | veți modifica |
| 3pl | modifică | modificară | vor modifica |
Word family
modificaremodification, amendment
modificatmodified
modificabilmodifiable
nemodificatunmodified
modificatormodifier
Etymology
Modifica comes from French modifier, itself from Latin modificare, a compound of modus, meaning measure or manner, and facere, meaning to make or do. So the original sense was to make something within a set measure, to keep it in due proportion. Over time this narrowed to the general sense of changing or altering something. Romanian took the word into its modern vocabulary during the 19th century wave of French and Latin borrowings that reshaped its formal and administrative language.
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