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provoca
to provoke, to cause /pro.voˈka/
verb#1400 most common
Also: to trigger, to bring about, to challenge
Example sentences
Nu vreau să te provoc.
I don't want to provoke you.
El mă provoacă mereu la o cursă.
He always challenges me to a race.
Ploile abundente au provocat inundații grave.
The heavy rains caused severe floods.
Declarația sa a provocat un scandal politic.
His statement triggered a political scandal.
Criticii spun că discursul liderului a provocat o reacție violentă din partea opoziției.
Critics say the leader's speech provoked a violent reaction from the opposition.
Deși nu intenționa să provoace un conflict diplomatic, declarațiile sale ambigue au fost interpretate ca o provocare deliberată.
Although he did not intend to provoke a diplomatic conflict, his ambiguous statements were interpreted as a deliberate provocation.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | provoc | provocai | voi provoca |
| 2sg | provoci | provocași | vei provoca |
| 3sg | provoacă | provocă | va provoca |
| 1pl | provocăm | provocarăm | vom provoca |
| 2pl | provocați | provocarăți | veți provoca |
| 3pl | provoacă | provocară | vor provoca |
Word family
provocareprovocation, challenge
provocatorprovocateur, provocative
provocatoareprovocative (feminine)
neprovocatunprovoked
Etymology
Provoca entered Romanian in the modern era as a learned borrowing from French provoquer, itself from Latin provocare, a compound of pro- (forth) and vocare (to call). The word replaced or joined older, more colloquial ways of expressing incitement as Romanian absorbed French vocabulary in the 19th century. Its Latin root ties it directly to a family of English words built on the same call-forth logic.
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