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oricare
whichever (one) /oriˈkare/
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Also: any one (of them), either one, whoever
Example sentences
Poți lua oricare carte.
You can take any book.
Oricare dintre voi poate câștiga.
Any one of you can win.
Sunt de acord cu oricare variantă alegi.
I agree with whichever option you choose.
Oricare ar fi motivul, trebuie să-mi spui adevărul.
Whatever the reason may be, you must tell me the truth.
Oricare dintre aceste soluții ar putea funcționa, însă niciuna nu este perfectă.
Any of these solutions could work, but none is perfect.
Oricare i-ar fi fost intențiile, consecințele acțiunilor sale au fost devastatoare pentru comunitate.
Whatever his intentions may have been, the consequences of his actions were devastating for the community.
Word family
carewhich, whooricinewhoever, anyoneoricewhatever, anythingoricândwhenever, anytimeoriundewherever, anywhere
Etymology
Oricare joins ori, a Romanian disjunctive conjunction traditionally traced to Latin hora ('hour'), with care, the relative and interrogative pronoun 'which, who', descended from Latin qualis ('of what kind'). Together they mean literally something close to 'or which', which settled into the sense 'whichever one'. The same ori- prefix builds a whole family of indefinite words: oricine ('whoever'), orice ('whatever'), oricând ('whenever'), oriunde ('wherever').
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