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plecaț
gone, departed, away (masculine plural) /pleˈkat͡sʲ/
adjective#1011 most common
Also: away, absent, having left
Example sentences
Ei sunt plecați.
They are gone.
Părinții sunt plecați în oraș.
The parents are out in town.
Vecinii mei sunt plecați în vacanță de o săptămână.
My neighbors have been away on vacation for a week.
Toți angajații plecați mai devreme au fost avertizați.
All the employees who left early were warned.
Deși erau plecați de acasă de ani buni, frații s-au întors pentru înmormântare.
Although they had been away from home for many years, the brothers returned for the funeral.
Bărbații plecați la război nu s-au mai întors niciodată în satul lor natal.
The men who had gone off to war never returned to their native village.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | plecat | plecați |
| Genitive | plecat | plecați |
| Accusative | plecat | plecați |
| Vocative | plecat | plecați |
Word family
a plecato leave, to depart
plecarea departure, a leavingplecatgone, departed (masculine singular)plecăciunea bow, a curtsy
plecăciosbowing, obsequious
Etymology
Plecați is the masculine plural of plecat, the past participle of the verb a pleca, meaning to leave or depart. A pleca descends from Latin plicare, to fold, which shifted in meaning toward bowing and then toward taking leave, since a bow was the gesture that marked a departure. The same Latin root spread across the Romance languages with different outcomes, from folding to arriving to leaving.
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