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pînă
until /pɨˈnə/
adverb#4671 most common
Also: till, as far as, up to
Example sentences
Aștept pînă mâine.
I'll wait until tomorrow.
Citesc pînă la pagina zece.
I'm reading up to page ten.
Nu plec pînă nu termin treaba.
I'm not leaving until I finish the work.
Am mers pe jos pînă la gară.
I walked as far as the station.
Pînă când vei înțelege că nu poți schimba trecutul?
Until when will you understand that you can't change the past?
Pînă nu se lumina de ziuă, plecaseră deja spre munte.
Before daybreak, they had already left for the mountain.
Word family
până acumuntil now, so far
până atunciuntil then
până cânduntil (the time when)
până la urmăin the end, eventually
Etymology
Pînă is the pre-1993 spelling of the modern Romanian word până. The Romanian Academy's 1993 orthographic reform restored â in most word-internal positions, so pînă became până in all standard writing after that date, though the pronunciation did not change. The deeper origin of până itself is not settled among Romanian etymologists, and dictionaries typically mark it as uncertain rather than tracing it to a firm source. Because of that uncertainty, no reconstructed root is given here.
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