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otrăvi
to poison /otrəˈvi/
verb#5015 most common
Also: to envenom, to contaminate (figurative: to corrupt or spoil)
Example sentences
Ciuperca aceasta poate otrăvi un om.
This mushroom can poison a person.
Șarpele a otrăvit câinele vecinilor.
The snake poisoned the neighbors' dog.
Fumul de la fabrică otrăvește aerul din oraș.
Smoke from the factory poisons the city's air.
Te rog, nu lăsa animalul să otrăvească restul turmei.
Please don't let the animal poison the rest of the herd.
Poliția crede că femeia și-a otrăvit soțul încet, timp de câteva luni.
The police believe the woman poisoned her husband slowly, over several months.
Zvonurile false pot otrăvi atmosfera dintr-o echipă, chiar dacă nimeni nu le ia în serios la început.
False rumors can poison a team's atmosphere, even if no one takes them seriously at first.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | otrăvesc | otrăvii | voi otrăvi |
| 2sg | otrăvești | otrăviși | vei otrăvi |
| 3sg | otrăvește | otrăvi | va otrăvi |
| 1pl | otrăvim | otrăvirăm | vom otrăvi |
| 2pl | otrăviți | otrăvirăți | veți otrăvi |
| 3pl | otrăvesc | otrăviră | vor otrăvi |
Word family
Etymology
Otrăvi is a verb built from the noun otravă, meaning poison, which Romanian borrowed from Slavic. Compare Old Church Slavonic and Russian forms of the same root, which also mean poison. Romanian took the borrowed noun stem and attached the native verbal ending -i to turn it into an action word. This borrow-a-noun-then-verb-it pattern is common in the Slavic layer of Romanian vocabulary.
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