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scuzati-mă
excuse me (formal/plural) /sku.zaˈt͡sʲ.mə/
verb#2450 most common
Also: forgive me, pardon me
Example sentences
Scuzați-mă!
Excuse me!
Scuzați-mă, unde este gara?
Excuse me, where is the train station?
Scuzați-mă că am întârziat.
Excuse me for being late.
Scuzați-mă, dar cred că greșiți.
Excuse me, but I think you are mistaken.
Scuzați-mă pentru deranj, dar aș avea nevoie de ajutorul dumneavoastră.
Excuse me for the trouble, but I would need your help.
Scuzați-mă că vă întrerup, însă documentul pe care mi l-ați trimis conține câteva inadvertențe pe care aș vrea să le clarificăm.
Excuse me for interrupting, but the document you sent me contains a few inconsistencies I would like to clarify.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | scuz | scuzai | voi scuza |
| 2sg | scuzi | scuzași | vei scuza |
| 3sg | scuză | scuză | va scuza |
| 1pl | scuzăm | scuzarăm | vom scuza |
| 2pl | scuzați | scuzarăți | veți scuza |
| 3pl | scuză | scuzară | vor scuza |
Word family
a scuzato excuse, to forgive
scuzăan excuse, an apologyscuzabilexcusable
de neiertatunforgivable (near-synonym, different root)
scuză-măexcuse me (informal singular)
Etymology
The verb "a scuza" entered Romanian as a learned borrowing from French "excuser", part of the wave of French and Latin-based vocabulary that reshaped Romanian in the 19th century. It ultimately traces to Latin "excusare", built from "ex-" (out, away) and "causa" (cause, legal case). "Scuzați-mă" fuses the formal imperative "scuzați" with the clitic pronoun "mă" (me), giving a fixed phrase equivalent to "excuse me".
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