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culca

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Romanian

Etymology

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Inherited from Latin collocāre. Compare Aromanian culcu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kulˈka/
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  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: cul‧ca

Verb

a culca (third-person singular present culcă, past participle culcat, third-person subjunctive culce) 1st conjugation

  1. (reflexive) to lie down, recline
    Pacientul se culcă pe spate pentru a fi examinat de doctor.
    The patient is lying down on his back to be examined by the doctor.
  2. (reflexive) to go to bed
  3. (reflexive, euphemistic) to sleep with
  4. (transitive) to lay down, place horizontally
    a culca la pământ
    to knock to the ground
    Pentru a muta stâlpul a trebuit mai întâi să-l culcăm.
    In order to move the pole, we first had to place it horizontally.

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