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ocupă
occupies /oˈkupə/
verb#2808 most common
Also: occupy! (imperative), takes care of (reflexive: se ocupă), is busy with
Example sentences
Ea ocupă un loc lângă geam.
She occupies a seat by the window.
Cine se ocupă de cumpărături azi?
Who's taking care of the shopping today?
Firma ocupă tot etajul al doilea al clădirii.
The firm occupies the entire second floor of the building.
Armata ocupă regiunea de la începutul conflictului.
The army has occupied the region since the start of the conflict.
Ocupă-te de detalii mai târziu și concentrează-te acum pe strategie.
Deal with the details later and focus on strategy now.
Deși președintele insistă că nu ocupă un teritoriu străin, observatorii internaționali susțin contrariul.
Although the president insists he does not occupy foreign territory, international observers claim the opposite.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | ocup | ocupai | voi ocupa |
| 2sg | ocupi | ocupași | vei ocupa |
| 3sg | ocupă | ocupă | va ocupa |
| 1pl | ocupăm | ocuparăm | vom ocupa |
| 2pl | ocupați | ocuparăți | veți ocupa |
| 3pl | ocupă | ocupară | vor ocupa |
Word family
ocuparethe act of occupying, occupation
ocupatoccupied, busyocupantoccupant
preocupato preoccupy, worryneocupatunoccupied, vacant
Etymology
Ocupă comes from the Romanian verb a ocupa, inherited from Latin occupare, meaning to seize or take possession of. Occupare itself is built from ob- (toward, over) and capere (to take, seize). Romanian likely reinforced the word through later contact with French occuper during the 19th-century modernization of its vocabulary, but the core sense of taking up space or a position stayed intact.
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