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scădea
to decrease /skəˈde̯a/
verb#1882 most common
Also: to fall (of prices, temperature, values), to subtract, to diminish
Example sentences
Prețul scade.
The price is going down.
Temperatura a scăzut mult azi.
The temperature dropped a lot today.
Trebuie să scazi zece din douăzeci.
You have to subtract ten from twenty.
Vânzările au scăzut cu zece procente în ultimul trimestru.
Sales fell by ten percent in the last quarter.
Dacă vom continua așa, încrederea publicului va scădea și mai mult.
If we keep going like this, public trust will decrease even further.
Economiștii se așteaptă ca inflația să scadă treptat pe măsură ce dobânzile cresc.
Economists expect inflation to decrease gradually as interest rates rise.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | scad | scăzui | voi scădea |
| 2sg | scazi | scăzuși | vei scădea |
| 3sg | scade | scăzu | va scădea |
| 1pl | scădem | scăzurăm | vom scădea |
| 2pl | scădeți | scăzurăți | veți scădea |
| 3pl | scad | scăzură | vor scădea |
Word family
scăderedecrease, decline, subtraction
scăzutlow, decreased, diminished
scăzătorsubtrahend (the number being subtracted)
descăzutminuend (the number subtracted from)
Etymology
Scădea comes from Latin excadere, a compound of ex- (out, down) and cadere (to fall). The same Latin cadere gave Romanian cădea (to fall), so scădea originally meant something close to 'to fall away'. Over time the sense narrowed to 'decrease' and, in mathematics, 'subtract'. The prefix ex- regularly reduces to s- in Romanian, a pattern seen in other Latin-derived verbs.
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