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pe
on /pe/
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Also: [direct-object marker, no English equivalent], onto, by
Example sentences
Cartea este pe masă.
The book is on the table.
Pe cine cauți?
Whom are you looking for?
Merg pe jos la muncă.
I walk to work.
O văd pe prietena mea în fiecare zi.
I see my friend every day.
L-am rugat pe vecin să mă ajute.
I asked the neighbor to help me.
Pe măsură ce se apropia examenul, emoțiile deveneau tot mai greu de controlat.
As the exam approached, the emotions became harder and harder to control.
Word family
pesteover, across, past
pe laaround, by (time or place)
pe subunderneath, beneath
de peoff of, from atop
Etymology
Pe descends from the Latin preposition per, meaning through, by means of, or along. In everyday speech the final r wore away and the word's range narrowed to the core Romanian preposition it is today. Latin per itself continues the Proto-Indo-European root *per-, forward, through, in front of, which also gave English for and Greek peri. In Romanian, the spatial sense of on or along was extended to mark specific animate or definite direct objects, a grammatical role with no direct English translation.
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