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spre
towards /ˈspre/
particle#266 most common
Also: to, for, about (towards evening/time)
Example sentences
Mergem spre casă.
We are going home.
Trenul pleacă spre Cluj la ora zece.
The train leaves for Cluj at ten o'clock.
Ne îndreptăm spre parc.
We are heading towards the park.
Spre seară, cerul s-a înnorat.
Towards evening, the sky clouded over.
Copilul privea spre fereastră, așteptând să vină părinții.
The child was looking towards the window, waiting for his parents to arrive.
Spre deosebire de fratele său, el a preferat întotdeauna liniștea muncii de birou.
Unlike his brother, he always preferred the quiet of office work.
Word family
despreabout, concerningînspretowards (emphatic variant)asupraupon, over, aboutcătretowards (more formal synonym)
Etymology
Spre comes from Latin supra, meaning above or over. In popular spoken Latin the sense shifted from a purely spatial one, above, to a directional one, towards. Romanian kept this drift and turned supra into the short function word spre, used mainly to mark direction or approximate time.
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