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timp
time /timp/
noun#63 most common
Also: tense (grammatical), period, era
Example sentences
Nu am timp acum.
I don't have time now.
Cât timp mai stai în România?
How much longer are you staying in Romania?
Timpul trece foarte repede când ești fericit.
Time passes very quickly when you're happy.
Am nevoie de mai mult timp ca să termin proiectul.
I need more time to finish the project.
Din lipsă de timp, am renunțat la vacanță.
For lack of time, I gave up the vacation.
Modul indicativ are mai multe timpuri verbale, precum prezentul și perfectul simplu.
The indicative mood has several verb tenses, such as the present and the simple perfect.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | timp | timpuri |
| Genitive | timpului | timpurilor |
| Accusative | timp | timpuri |
| Vocative | timpule | timpuri |
Word family
temporartemporary
contemporancontemporary
timpuriuearly
atemporaltimeless, outside of time
timpulthe time (definite form)
Etymology
Timp comes from Latin tempus, temporis, meaning time or season. Romanian kept the word as part of its core Latin vocabulary, unlike some Romance languages that later reshaped it further. The grammatical sense, a verb tense, is a later semantic extension shared across Romance languages, calqued from Latin grammatical terminology.
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