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repeta
to repeat /re.peˈta/
verb#1384 most common
Also: to rehearse, to recur (reflexive: a se repeta)
Example sentences
Te rog, repetă asta.
Please, repeat that.
El repetă cuvintele noi în fiecare zi.
He repeats the new words every day.
Am repetat lecția de mai multe ori.
I repeated the lesson several times.
Profesorul a repetat explicația pentru elevii care nu au înțeles.
The teacher repeated the explanation for the students who hadn't understood.
Istoria se repetă adesea, chiar dacă nu vrem să învățăm din greșelile trecutului.
History often repeats itself, even when we refuse to learn from past mistakes.
Dacă greșeala se va repeta, vom fi nevoiți să reconsiderăm întreaga strategie.
If the mistake happens again, we will have to reconsider the entire strategy.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | repet | repetai | voi repeta |
| 2sg | repeți | repetași | vei repeta |
| 3sg | repetă | repetă | va repeta |
| 1pl | repetăm | repetarăm | vom repeta |
| 2pl | repetați | repetarăți | veți repeta |
| 3pl | repetă | repetară | vor repeta |
Word family
repetițierepetition, rehearsal
repetatrepeatedrepetitivrepetitive
repetenta student held back to repeat a school year
a se repetato repeat itself, to recur
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "repeta" from French "répéter" in the 19th century, during the wave of Latinate and French vocabulary that reshaped modern Romanian. The French word itself comes from Latin "repetere," built from "re-" (again) and "petere" (to seek, to aim at). So the core sense is literally "to seek again."
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