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tocmai
exactly / just /tokˈmaj/
adverb#253 most common
Also: right (as in 'right now'), precisely, just (in the sense of 'a moment ago' or 'about to')
Example sentences
Tocmai am ajuns acasă.
I just arrived home.
El tocmai pleacă la școală.
He is just leaving for school.
Tocmai voiam să te sun.
I was just about to call you.
Tocmai de aceea îți spun asta.
That is exactly why I am telling you this.
Tocmai acum a început să ningă.
It started snowing right now, of all times.
Tocmai pentru că nu are experiență, are nevoie de îndrumare.
Precisely because he lacks experience, he needs guidance.
Word family
a tocmito arrange, negotiate, hire
tocmealăbargain, deal, agreement
tocmitarranged, hired, agreed upon
netocmitunarranged, not settled
Etymology
Tocmai entered Romanian from Slavic, from a word related to Old Church Slavonic tokmo, meaning "only, exactly". Romanian absorbed many small function words like this one from centuries of contact with Slavic speakers in the Balkans. The same Slavic root gave Romanian the verb a tocmi, "to arrange or negotiate", which shares the sense of settling on something precise.
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