culca

Romanian

Etymology

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
    Pentru a muta stâlpul a trebuit mai întâi să-l culcăm.
    In order to move the pole, we first had to place it horizontally.
    a culca la pământ
    to knock to the ground

Conjugation

    conjugation of culca (first conjugation, no infix)
infinitive a culca
gerund culcând
past participle culcat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present culc culci culcă culcăm culcați culcă
imperfect culcam culcai culca culcam culcați culcau
simple perfect culcai culcași culcă culcarăm culcarăți culcară
pluperfect culcasem culcaseși culcase culcaserăm culcaserăți culcaseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să culc să culci să culce să culcăm să culcați să culce
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative culcă culcați
negative nu culca nu culcați

Derived terms

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References

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