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scrie

to write /ˈskri.e/

verb#393 most common

Also: to write down, to record

Example sentences

Ana scrie o scrisoare.
Ana writes a letter.
El scrie temele în fiecare zi.
He writes his homework every day.
Profesorul ne cere să scriem un eseu despre natură.
The teacher asks us to write an essay about nature.
Scrie-mi imediat ce ajungi acasă, ca să știu că ești bine.
Write to me as soon as you get home, so I know you are fine.
Se spune că a scris cartea într-o singură vară, ceea ce pare greu de crezut.
It is said he wrote the book in a single summer, which seems hard to believe.
Deși manuscrisul fusese scris cu decenii în urmă, stilul autorului rămâne surprinzător de actual.
Although the manuscript had been written decades earlier, the author's style remains surprisingly current.

Conjugation

Present ActiveSimple Past ActiveSimple Future Active
1sgscriuscriseivoi scrie
2sgscriiscriseșivei scrie
3sgscriescriseva scrie
1plscriemscriserămvom scrie
2plscriețiscriserățiveți scrie
3plscriuscriserăvor scrie

Word family

scriitorwriter
scrierewriting, piece of writing
scrisoareletterdescrieto describeînscrieto enroll, to inscribe

Etymology

Scrie descends from the Latin verb scribere, meaning to write or to draw lines. Romanian inherited it as core vocabulary, the same way its Romance relatives did. Latin scribere itself traces back to a Proto-Indo-European root tied to cutting or scratching marks, a reminder that early writing meant incising signs into wax or stone rather than drawing ink on paper.

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