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scapă
escapes / gets away /skaˈpə/
verb#4268 most common
Also: drops (something), slips (someone's mind/grip), gets rid of / avoids
Example sentences
Pisica scapă pe ușă.
The cat slips out through the door.
Copilul scapă paharul din mână.
The child drops the glass from their hand.
El scapă cu bine din accident.
He comes out of the accident unharmed.
Nimeni nu scapă de moarte.
No one escapes death.
Dacă nu semnează azi, scapă acest contract.
If he doesn't sign today, he'll lose out on this contract.
Detaliul acesta îi scapă chiar și celui mai atent cititor.
This detail escapes even the most attentive reader.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | scap | scăpai | voi scăpa |
| 2sg | scapi | scăpași | vei scăpa |
| 3sg | scapă | scăpă | va scăpa |
| 1pl | scăpăm | scăparăm | vom scăpa |
| 2pl | scăpați | scăparăți | veți scăpa |
| 3pl | scapă | scăpară | vor scăpa |
Word family
a scăpato escape, to get away, to drop
scăpareescape, rescue, slip-upscăpatescaped, freed
nescăpatnot escaped, still trapped
Etymology
"Scapă" is the third person singular present of "a scăpa", from Late Latin "excappare". That verb was built from "ex-" (out of) plus "cappa" (cloak, cape), so the original image is of slipping out of a cloak someone else is holding onto. The same Late Latin root spread across the Romance languages and even reached English through Old French.
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