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oricine
anyone / whoever /oriˈtʃine/
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Also: anybody, whoever it may be
Example sentences
Oricine poate să vină la petrecere.
Anyone can come to the party.
Oricine face greșeli din când în când.
Anyone makes mistakes now and then.
Nu am încredere în oricine.
I don't trust just anyone.
Poți întreba pe oricine din clasă, toți știu răspunsul.
You can ask anyone in the class, they all know the answer.
Oricine ar fi comis această greșeală, consecințele ar fi fost aceleași.
Whoever had made this mistake, the consequences would have been the same.
Legea se aplică oricui, indiferent de statutul social.
The law applies to anyone, regardless of social status.
Word family
Etymology
Oricine is built from the prefix ori- and cine, the Romanian word for "who". The prefix ori- is the same element found in oricare, orice, oricând, and oriunde, and it grammaticalized from the Romanian word ori ("times", as in de multe ori, "many times"), itself from Latin hora ("hour"). Cine, the base word for "who", comes from Latin quis/qui. The combination reads roughly as "who, any time", giving the sense "anyone, whoever".
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