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ocupa
to occupy /okuˈpa/
verb#452 most common
Also: to take up (space or time), to hold (a position, a job), a se ocupa de = to take care of, to deal with
Example sentences
Eu ocup camera din dreapta.
I occupy the room on the right.
Mama se ocupă de casă în fiecare dimineață.
Mom takes care of the house every morning.
El se va ocupa de acest proiect săptămâna viitoare.
He will take care of this project next week.
Compania ocupă o clădire întreagă în centrul orașului.
The company occupies an entire building downtown.
Armata a ocupat orașul după o luptă îndelungată.
The army occupied the city after a long battle.
Deși se ocupase deja de acte, funcționarul a cerut documente suplimentare.
Although he had already taken care of the paperwork, the official asked for additional documents.
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
ocupațieoccupation, job
ocupatoccupied, busyocupantoccupant
neocupatunoccupied, vacant
preocupato preoccupy, to worryEtymology
Romanian "ocupa" was borrowed from French "occuper", which itself traces to Latin "occupare", a compound of the prefix "ob-" (toward, over) and "capere" (to take, seize). This makes it part of the large layer of Latin-derived neologisms that entered Romanian through French during the nineteenth-century modernization of the language, rather than a word inherited directly and continuously from spoken Latin. The core sense, to take hold of something and keep it, has stayed remarkably stable.
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