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porti
you wear /ˈport͡sʲ/
verb#4026 most common
Also: you carry, you bear (a name or responsibility)
Example sentences
Ce porți azi?
What are you wearing today?
Tu porți o geantă neagră la școală.
You carry a black bag to school.
De ce porți ochelari de soare în casă?
Why are you wearing sunglasses inside the house?
Porți numele bunicului tău cu mândrie.
You bear your grandfather's name with pride.
Când porți uniforma echipei, reprezinți pe toată lumea.
When you wear the team's uniform, you represent everyone.
Porți o responsabilitate pe care puțini ar accepta-o de bunăvoie.
You bear a responsibility that few would accept willingly.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | port | purtai | voi purta |
| 2sg | porți | purtași | vei purta |
| 3sg | poartă | purtă | va purta |
| 1pl | purtăm | purtarăm | vom purta |
| 2pl | purtați | purtarăți | veți purta |
| 3pl | poartă | purtară | vor purta |
Word family
a purtato wear, to carry, to bear
purtarebehavior, conduct
a se comportato behave
a transportato transport
a raportato report
Etymology
Porți is the second-person singular present of a purta, inherited from Latin portare, to carry. Romanian kept the basic sense of carrying and stretched it to cover wearing clothes and bearing names, titles, or duties. The same Latin root, through French and Italian, gave Europe a family of carrying verbs, while English words like port and transport arrived later as separate borrowings rather than direct descendants.
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