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pa
bye /ˈpa/
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Also: bye-bye, see you
Example sentences
Pa, mami!
Bye, mommy!
Pa, ne vedem mâine!
Bye, see you tomorrow!
Copilul a fluturat mâna și a spus pa.
The child waved his hand and said bye.
I-am spus pa de la fereastră, în timp ce mașina se îndepărta.
I said bye to him from the window while the car pulled away.
Deși voia să rămână supărat, tot i-a spus pa înainte să plece.
Although he wanted to stay angry, he still said bye to her before leaving.
Nu ne-am luat rămas bun cum se cuvine, doar un pa grăbit, aruncat peste umăr, și a dispărut în mulțime.
We did not part properly, just a hurried bye tossed over the shoulder, and he vanished into the crowd.
Word family
pa-pabye-bye (affectionate, used with small children)
bunăhi (informal greeting counterpart to pa)
la revederegoodbye (formal register, used where pa would be too casual)
Etymology
Pa is an informal farewell interjection, not a word inherited from Latin through the normal sound changes that shaped most of the Romanian core vocabulary. It belongs to a class of short, easily repeated words that arise in child-directed speech, similar in shape and function to English bye-bye. Because such words tend to form independently rather than descend from a common ancestor, no PIE root can be reliably reconstructed for it.
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