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neapărat
necessarily / without fail /ne̯a.pəˈrat/
adverb#2571 most common
Also: absolutely, be sure to (do something), essential (archaic adjectival use)
Example sentences
Trebuie să vii neapărat.
You absolutely must come.
Sună-mă neapărat când ajungi acasă.
Call me without fail when you get home.
Ia neapărat umbrela, plouă afară.
Be sure to take the umbrella, it's raining outside.
Directorul a cerut ca raportul să fie gata neapărat până vineri.
The director asked that the report be ready without fail by Friday.
Nu este neapărat adevărat că prețurile vor crește.
It is not necessarily true that prices will rise.
Ceea ce îi lipsea, de neapărată trebuință, era un sfat înțelept, nu bani.
What he needed, as an absolute necessity, was wise advice, not money.
Word family
apărato defend, protectapăraredefense, protection
apăratdefended, protected
apărătordefender, protector
Etymology
Neapărat is built from the negative prefix ne- and apărat, the past participle of a apăra. Today a apăra means "to defend," but in older Romanian it also carried the sense "to ward off" or "to prevent." So neapărat literally meant "not able to be warded off," that is, unavoidable, and from there it shifted to mean "necessarily" or "without fail." A apăra itself descends from Latin apparare, "to prepare, make ready."
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