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vreodată
ever /vre.oˈda.tə/
adverb#305 most common
Also: at any time, at all (in questions)
Example sentences
Ai fost vreodată la Paris?
Have you ever been to Paris?
Mănânci vreodată pește crud?
Do you ever eat raw fish?
Dacă vei avea vreodată nevoie de ajutor, sună-mă.
If you ever need help, call me.
Este cel mai frumos loc pe care l-am văzut vreodată.
It is the most beautiful place I have ever seen.
Nu cred că le va păsa vreodată de urmările deciziei lor.
I don't think they will ever care about the consequences of their decision.
Puțini și-ar fi imaginat vreodată că un asemenea eveniment ar putea avea loc.
Few would ever have imagined that such an event could take place.
Word family
niciodatăneverodatăonce, one timealtădatăanother time, in the pastcâteodatăsometimes
vreun / vreosome, any
Etymology
Vreodată is a fusion of two older Romanian words: vreo, the feminine form of vreun ("some, any"), and dată ("a time, an occurrence"), from Latin data, the feminine past participle of dare, "to give." Vreun/vreo itself comes from a fusion of vrea ("to want," from Latin volere) with the numeral un/o ("one"), so it originally meant something like "whichever one you want." Put together, vreodată literally meant "some time" or "any given time," and narrowed to the adverb "ever."
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