See încurca on Wiktionary
{
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "descurca"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "încurca borcanele"
},
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "încurcală"
},
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},
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"word": "încurcăreală"
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[
"colus",
"colus#Latin"
],
[
"currō",
"curro#Latin"
],
[
"descurca",
"descurca#Romanian"
]
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{
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"2": "la-vul",
"3": "",
"4": "incolicāre"
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
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},
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"name": "etydate"
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{
"form": "a încurca 1st conjugation",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcă",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcat",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "încurce",
"tags": [
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "conjugation-1",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
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"source": "conjugation",
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"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "a încurca",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcând",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"gerund"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcat",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "încurc",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "încurci",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcă",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcăm",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcați",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcă",
"source": "conjugation",
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"indicative",
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcam",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcai",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "încurca",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcam",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcați",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcau",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcai",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"perfect",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcași",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"perfect",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcă",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"perfect",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcarăm",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"perfect",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcarăți",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"perfect",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcară",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"perfect",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcasem",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"pluperfect",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcaseși",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"pluperfect",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcase",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"pluperfect",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcaserăm",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"pluperfect",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcaserăți",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"pluperfect",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcaseră",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"pluperfect",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "să încurc",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "să încurci",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "să încurce",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "să încurcăm",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "să încurcați",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"second-person",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "să încurce",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcă",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "încurcați",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "nu încurca",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"negative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nu încurcați",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"negative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "încurcă",
"2": "încurcat",
"3": "încurce"
},
"expansion": "a încurca (third-person singular present încurcă, past participle încurcat, third-person subjunctive încurce) 1st conjugation",
"name": "ro-verb"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"în",
"cur",
"ca"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "încurc"
},
"name": "ro-conj-a"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [],
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15,
21
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],
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17,
24
]
],
"english": "When strings get tangled\nIt’s with difficulty that they untangle.",
"ref": "1856, Anton Pann, Povestea vorbii [Story of the word], part 1, Bucharest, page 61:",
"roman": "Firile când se-ncurcă\nAnevoe se descurcă.",
"text": "Фіріле кѫнд съ’нкꙋркъ\nАневое се дескꙋркъ.",
"translation": "When strings get tangled\nIt’s with difficulty that they untangle.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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86,
95
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89,
96
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],
"english": "“Your ideal, Felix, is very beautiful”, said Otilia straightening his hair, after having tangled it, “it’s the ideal of a young man who will succeed in life.”",
"ref": "1938, George Călinescu, Enigma Otiliei, Bucharest: Minerva, published 1979, page 521:",
"text": "― Idealul tău, Felix, este foarte frumos — zise Otilia netezindu-i părul, după ce i-l încurcase — e un ideal de tînăr care va răzbi în viață.",
"translation": "“Your ideal, Felix, is very beautiful”, said Otilia straightening his hair, after having tangled it, “it’s the ideal of a young man who will succeed in life.”",
"type": "quotation"
},
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42
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36,
43
]
],
"english": "The two young men’s paragliders got tangled, and they fell from a height of ten metres.",
"ref": "2011 May 22, “Li s-au incurcat firele de la parapanta in aer si au cazut de la 10 metri [Their paraglider cords got tangled while airborne and they fell for 10 metres]”, in Pro TV, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2020:",
"text": "Parapantele celor doi tineri s-au incurcat, iar ei s-au prabusit de la zece metri inaltime.",
"translation": "The two young men’s paragliders got tangled, and they fell from a height of ten metres.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"to tangle"
],
"id": "en-încurca-ro-verb-TRWupDZC",
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[
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"tangle"
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],
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"(transitive or reflexive; literal; less common) to tangle"
],
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{
"_dis1": "52 6 12 2 0 10 3 9 1 2 1 0 1 2",
"sense": "tangle, get tangled",
"word": "încâlci"
}
],
"tags": [
"reflexive",
"transitive",
"uncommon"
]
},
{
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"name": "Undetermined terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
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44,
53
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42,
52
]
],
"english": "May his foot be ensnared, in a net may he be tangled. (Job 18:8)",
"ref": "1688, Bucharest Bible, page 370 (т҃о):",
"roman": "Pue-se piciorul lui în laț, în mreajă să să încurce.",
"text": "Пꙋ́есе пичо́рꙋль лꙋи ꙟ҆ла́ць ꙟ҆ мрѣ́жъ съсъ ꙟ҆кꙋ́р꙽че ·",
"translation": "May his foot be ensnared, in a net may he be tangled. (Job 18:8)",
"type": "quotation"
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16,
23
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19,
30
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],
"english": "[…] in briars\nhe’d get tangled,\nthorns\nwould sting him […]",
"ref": "1885, G. Dem. Teodorescu (gatherer), “Fagulŭ Miĭuluĭ”, in Poesii populare române [Romanian folk poems], Bucharest, page 508, lines 422–425:",
"text": "[…]de măceși\nse încurca,\nmărăcinĭ\nîlŭ înţepa,[…]",
"translation": "[…] in briars\nhe’d get tangled,\nthorns\nwould sting him […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"glosses": [
"to get stuck or tangled (literally or figuratively)"
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"(reflexive) to get stuck or tangled (literally or figuratively)"
],
"tags": [
"reflexive"
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19,
27
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22,
29
]
],
"english": "[…] Why, then, do you confuse and perplex the boys?",
"ref": "1837, Costache Negruzzi, “Cum am învățat românește [How I learnt Romanian]”, in Curier de ambe sexele [Newsletter for both sexes], volume 1, number 22, Bucharest, page 341:",
"roman": "[…] apoi pentru ce încurci și amețiști pe băiați?",
"text": "[…]апоі̆ пеnтрᲈ че ꙟnкᲈрчі̆ ші аmеціщі̆ пе бъꙗці̆?",
"translation": "[…] Why, then, do you confuse and perplex the boys?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to entangle, confuse, hamper, trouble, encumber, perplex, complicate"
],
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[
"confuse",
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"hamper",
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],
[
"trouble",
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],
[
"encumber",
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],
[
"perplex",
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],
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]
],
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"(transitive) to entangle, confuse, hamper, trouble, encumber, perplex, complicate"
],
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"transitive"
]
},
{
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15,
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27,
40
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],
"english": "But why, I wonder, did mum get flustered when I asked her about Marta?",
"ref": "1922, Liviu Rebreanu, “Pădurea Spânzuraților”, in Forest of the Hanged, book II, chapter 7:",
"text": "Dar oare de ce s-a încurcat mama când am întrebat-o de Marta?",
"translation": "But why, I wonder, did mum get flustered when I asked her about Marta?",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"to become or to render flustered, knowing not what to say"
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"flustered",
"flustered"
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],
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"reflexive",
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]
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"kind": "other",
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19,
25
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17,
23
]
],
"english": "You know I don’t bother with trifles.",
"ref": "2017, Mihai Măniuțiu, “Muza”, in Fuga cu Henri: Culegere de proze, Bucharest: Editura Humanitas, →ISBN, page 165:",
"text": "Doar știi că nu mă încurc cu mizilicuri.",
"translation": "You know I don’t bother with trifles.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to bother with something"
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"id": "en-încurca-ro-verb-jRn0j8l0",
"links": [
[
"bother",
"bother"
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"raw_glosses": [
"(reflexive, chiefly in the negative) to bother with something"
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"in the negative"
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"reflexive"
]
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"categories": [
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"parents": [],
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110,
116
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],
"english": "I knew by heart the names of the six stations I would pass through, but because of nervousness I would always mix up their order…",
"ref": "1979, Margareta Sterian, Oblic peste lume, Editura Eminescu, page 63:",
"text": "Numele celor șase stații prin care treceam le știam pe dinafară, însă din cauza emoției le încurcam întotdeauna ordinea…",
"translation": "I knew by heart the names of the six stations I would pass through, but because of nervousness I would always mix up their order…",
"type": "quotation"
},
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7,
13
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7,
13
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19,
21
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],
"english": "I keep mixing them up. I must always mentally pair them with their husbands in other to remember which is which.",
"ref": "2020, Mihaela Ionescu, transl., După sfârșit, Bucharest: Trei, translation of After the End by Clare Mackintosh, →ISBN:",
"text": "Le tot încurc. Trebuie să le tot grupez mental cu soții lor ca să-mi pot aduce aminte cine e fiecare.",
"translation": "I keep mixing them up. I must always mentally pair them with their husbands in other to remember which is which.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"to mix up, confuse one for another"
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"(transitive) to mix up, confuse one for another"
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"parents": [],
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],
"english": "They also allege that Gavril had held service while sozzled on some occasions, that he’d once bowed with the censer to the candles instead of the icons, and that he’d once stumbled while reading the Holy Gospel.",
"ref": "1874, Iacob Negruzzi, “Părintele Gavril [Father Gavril]”, in Copii de pe natură [Copies from nature], Bucharest: Socec, page 14:",
"text": "Ei mai susțin că Gavril ar fi slujit de căteva ori fiind cu chef, că odată s’ar fi inchinat cu cadelnița pe la sfeșnice in loc de icoane și că s’ar fi incurcat in cetirea Sfintei Evanghelii.",
"translation": "They also allege that Gavril had held service while sozzled on some occasions, that he’d once bowed with the censer to the candles instead of the icons, and that he’d once stumbled while reading the Holy Gospel.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"make a blunder in confusion"
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"(reflexive) make a blunder in confusion [with la]"
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"reflexive"
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"_dis": "5 3 3 9 2 6 3 31 3 13 12 2 3 4",
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"english": "And it is for women that we fall from the grace of God, […] and by joining and involving ourselves with them, […]",
"ref": "1581, Coresi, Carte cu învățătură, Brașov, page 466; edited in Sextil Pușcariu, Alexie Procopovici, editors, Carte cu învățătură, volume 1, Bucharest: Socec, 1914, page 327:",
"roman": "Și pentru mueri cădem de la Dumnezeu, […] și adăogându-ne și încurcându-ne acestora, […]",
"text": "шѝ пе́нтрꙋ мᲈе҆ри къдемь де́ла доу́мнеꙁеꙋ ,[…]шѝ а҆́дь́ꙍгъндꙋне шѝ ꙟ҆коу́ркѫндꙋне а҆че́стора ,[…]",
"translation": "And it is for women that we fall from the grace of God, […] and by joining and involving ourselves with them, […]",
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37
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19,
26
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"english": "Abdul was about to hook up with the visier’s daughter, forgetting all the longing and flame that he had for Dardana, and I don’t think this man as faithful in love as you make him out to be to me.",
"ref": "1835, Ioan Gherasim Gorjanu, transl., Halima, volume 2, Bucharest, translation of Arabicon Mythologicon, archived from the original on 06 May 2023, page 173:",
"roman": "Abtul puțin a lipsit să nu se încurce cu fata vezirului, uitând de tot dorul și focul ce avea cu Dardana, și nu mi se pare acest om atâta de credincios întru amor, precum mi-l lăudați voi.",
"text": "Абтꙋл пꙋцін а ліпсіт съ нꙋ се‑ꙟнкꙋрче кꙋ фата везірꙋлꙋі꙼, ꙋітѫнд де тот дорꙋл ші фокꙋл че абѣ кꙋ Дардана, ші нꙋ мі꙼ се‑паре ачест ом' атѫта де кредінчос ꙟнтрꙋ амор', прекꙋм мі'л лъꙋдаці꙼ воі꙼.",
"translation": "Abdul was about to hook up with the visier’s daughter, forgetting all the longing and flame that he had for Dardana, and I don’t think this man as faithful in love as you make him out to be to me.",
"type": "quotation"
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30,
38
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"english": "People would say that dad was mixed up in some shady affairs with these people and that’s why they killed him […]",
"ref": "1997, Basarabia, number 7, Chișinău, page 120:",
"text": "Lumea vorbea că tata a fost încurcat cu aceștia în niște afaceri tenebroase și de aceea l-au omorît[…]",
"translation": "People would say that dad was mixed up in some shady affairs with these people and that’s why they killed him […]",
"type": "quotation"
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27,
36
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32,
45
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"english": "She claims that your father had had an affair with a young woman from this town.",
"ref": "2019, Marius Michal Klimowicz, transl., O minciună perfectă, Bucharest: Litera, translation of All the beautiful lies by Peter Swanson, →ISBN:",
"text": "Ea susține că tatăl tău se încurcase cu o tânără de aici din oraș.",
"translation": "She claims that your father had had an affair with a young woman from this town.",
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76
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"english": "Spiro, that mighty Spiro, that sacked the upper country,\nDoesn’t play around, crosses the Prut, seeking to rid himself of suspicion.",
"ref": "c. 1825, Alecu Beldiman, Eterie^(https://web.archive.org/web/20230624094344/https://bibl-dlr.lingv.ro/BAZA%20DE%20DATE%20DLR/CARTI/BELDIMAN/BELDIMAN,%20Eterie%20(1826)/), 1st edition, Iași, published 1861, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2023, page 56; republished in Mihail Kogălniceanu, editor, Cronicele României, 2nd edition, volume 3, Bucharest, 1874, page 382:",
"roman": "Spirul, acel falnic Spirul, ce-au prădat țara de sus,\nNu să-ncurcă, trece Prutul, vrând să easă din prepus.",
"text": "Спiрᲈл, ачел фалnik Спiрᲈл, ч’аᲈ̆ пръdаt цара dе сᲈс,\nНᲈ съ’n kᲈрkъ, tрече Прᲈtᲈл, врînd съ еасъ din препᲈс,[…]",
"translation": "Spiro, that mighty Spiro, that sacked the upper country,\nDoesn’t play around, crosses the Prut, seeking to rid himself of suspicion.",
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62,
73
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"english": "[…] when Alecsandri sets his mind on caricaturing, he doesn’t play around.",
"ref": "1906, Garabet Ibrăileanu, “Un junimist patruzecioptist: Vasile Alecsandri”, in Viața Românească, volume 2, number 4, Iași: Dacia, archived from the original on 27 May 2023, page 43; republished in Spiritul critic în cultura românească [Critical spirit in Romanian culture], 1909:",
"text": "[…]Alexandri cînd se pune pe caricaturizare, nu se-ncurcă.",
"translation": "[…] when Alecsandri sets his mind on caricaturing, he doesn’t play around.",
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47,
58
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"english": "Over here, when it rains, it rains, it doesn’t play around!",
"ref": "1936, George Topîrceanu, “Plouă…”, in Otilia Cazimir, editor, Postume [Posthumous works], Bucharest: Cartea Românească, published 1938:",
"text": "Pe-aici când plouă, — plouă, nu se-ncurcă!",
"translation": "Over here, when it rains, it rains, it doesn’t play around!",
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63
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38,
45
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"english": "When he went home on leave he rioted, no joke, and did it pompously.",
"ref": "2014, Casiana Ioniță, transl., Inima întunericului, Bucharest: Polirom, translation of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, →ISBN:",
"text": "Când se ducea acasă în concediu, își făcea de cap, nu se-ncurca și o făcea în stil mare.",
"translation": "When he went home on leave he rioted, no joke, and did it pompously.",
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"english": "That evening old man Bodrângă had got caught up who knows where, and Pavel, not having anything to do like he had other times, had gone to bed early.",
"ref": "1882 March 1, Ion Creangă, “Amintiri din copilărie [Childhood Memories (part 3)]”, in Convorbiri Literare, volume 15, number 12, archived from the original on 06 May 2023, page 459:",
"text": "Moș Bodrăngă se incurcase nu știu pe unde in sara aceea, și Pavel neavĕnd lucru ca alte dăți, se culcase de vreme.",
"translation": "That evening old man Bodrângă had got caught up who knows where, and Pavel, not having anything to do like he had other times, had gone to bed early.",
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11,
19
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],
"english": "The driver lingered at Gambrinus and had forgotten about us, I had left without cash on me…",
"ref": "2016, Nora Iuga, Harald și luna verde [Harald and the Green Moon], Polirom, →ISBN:",
"text": "Șoferul se încurcase la Gambrinus și uitase de noi, plecasem fără bani la mine…",
"translation": "The driver lingered at Gambrinus and had forgotten about us, I had left without cash on me…",
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"english": "încurc, in Merișori, on the Jiu: “you bought a pair of heifers, if only you’re lucky enough that they live.” “The piglet isn’t expensive, if you’re lucky enough for it to live.” Only said of living beings.",
"ref": "1906, Alexiu Viciu, “Glosar de cuvinte dialectale din graiul viu al poporului român din Ardeal [Glossary of dialectal words in the speech of Romanians in Ardeal]”, in Analele Academiei Române [Annals of the Romanian Academy], volume 29, Bucharest, page 110:",
"text": "încurc, la Merișori, pe Jiu: „ai cumpărat o păreche de junci, de ai avè noroc să încurce“ = să trăească. „Nu-i scump purcelul, de ai avè noroc să încurce“. Se zice numai despre ființe vii.",
"translation": "încurc, in Merișori, on the Jiu: “you bought a pair of heifers, if only you’re lucky enough that they live.” “The piglet isn’t expensive, if you’re lucky enough for it to live.” Only said of living beings.",
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],
"english": "That you would tread on my lands,\n trample\nmy hayfields […]",
"ref": "1885, G. Dem. Teodorescu (gatherer), “Ghiță Cătănuță”, in Poesii populare române [Romanian folk poems], Bucharest, page 627, lines 140–143:",
"text": "Sĕ’mi calcĭ tu locurile,\nsĕ’mi încurcĭ\nfêneţele[…]",
"translation": "That you would tread on my lands,\n trample\nmy hayfields […]",
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"english": "[…] the accusations and punishments we prematurely direct to our brethren, and the schemes we plot against one another.",
"ref": "1581, Coresi, Carte cu învățătură, Brașov, page 362; edited in Sextil Pușcariu, Alexie Procopovici, editors, Carte cu învățătură, volume 1, Bucharest: Socec, 1914, page 327:",
"roman": "[…] împutăciunile și osândele fără vreame ce osândim vecinii noștri, și hitleniia ce încurcăm unul spre alalt.",
"text": "[…]ꙟ҆пᲈтѫчюниле шѝ о҆сѫ́нделе фь́рѫ врѣ́ме , чѐ о҆сѫ́ндиⷨ вечи́нїи но́щри · шѝ хи́тленїѣ чѐ ꙟ҆коу́ркѫмь оу҆нꙋль спрѐ а҆́ла́лть[…]",
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{
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"plural",
"present",
"subjunctive"
]
},
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"present",
"second-person",
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},
{
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"present",
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"second-person",
"singular"
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},
{
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"plural",
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21
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17,
24
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],
"english": "When strings get tangled\nIt’s with difficulty that they untangle.",
"ref": "1856, Anton Pann, Povestea vorbii [Story of the word], part 1, Bucharest, page 61:",
"roman": "Firile când se-ncurcă\nAnevoe se descurcă.",
"text": "Фіріле кѫнд съ’нкꙋркъ\nАневое се дескꙋркъ.",
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95
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96
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"english": "“Your ideal, Felix, is very beautiful”, said Otilia straightening his hair, after having tangled it, “it’s the ideal of a young man who will succeed in life.”",
"ref": "1938, George Călinescu, Enigma Otiliei, Bucharest: Minerva, published 1979, page 521:",
"text": "― Idealul tău, Felix, este foarte frumos — zise Otilia netezindu-i părul, după ce i-l încurcase — e un ideal de tînăr care va răzbi în viață.",
"translation": "“Your ideal, Felix, is very beautiful”, said Otilia straightening his hair, after having tangled it, “it’s the ideal of a young man who will succeed in life.”",
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43
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"english": "The two young men’s paragliders got tangled, and they fell from a height of ten metres.",
"ref": "2011 May 22, “Li s-au incurcat firele de la parapanta in aer si au cazut de la 10 metri [Their paraglider cords got tangled while airborne and they fell for 10 metres]”, in Pro TV, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2020:",
"text": "Parapantele celor doi tineri s-au incurcat, iar ei s-au prabusit de la zece metri inaltime.",
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44,
53
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42,
52
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],
"english": "May his foot be ensnared, in a net may he be tangled. (Job 18:8)",
"ref": "1688, Bucharest Bible, page 370 (т҃о):",
"roman": "Pue-se piciorul lui în laț, în mreajă să să încurce.",
"text": "Пꙋ́есе пичо́рꙋль лꙋи ꙟ҆ла́ць ꙟ҆ мрѣ́жъ съсъ ꙟ҆кꙋ́р꙽че ·",
"translation": "May his foot be ensnared, in a net may he be tangled. (Job 18:8)",
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16,
23
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19,
30
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"english": "[…] in briars\nhe’d get tangled,\nthorns\nwould sting him […]",
"ref": "1885, G. Dem. Teodorescu (gatherer), “Fagulŭ Miĭuluĭ”, in Poesii populare române [Romanian folk poems], Bucharest, page 508, lines 422–425:",
"text": "[…]de măceși\nse încurca,\nmărăcinĭ\nîlŭ înţepa,[…]",
"translation": "[…] in briars\nhe’d get tangled,\nthorns\nwould sting him […]",
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19,
27
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22,
29
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],
"english": "[…] Why, then, do you confuse and perplex the boys?",
"ref": "1837, Costache Negruzzi, “Cum am învățat românește [How I learnt Romanian]”, in Curier de ambe sexele [Newsletter for both sexes], volume 1, number 22, Bucharest, page 341:",
"roman": "[…] apoi pentru ce încurci și amețiști pe băiați?",
"text": "[…]апоі̆ пеnтрᲈ че ꙟnкᲈрчі̆ ші аmеціщі̆ пе бъꙗці̆?",
"translation": "[…] Why, then, do you confuse and perplex the boys?",
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27,
40
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"english": "But why, I wonder, did mum get flustered when I asked her about Marta?",
"ref": "1922, Liviu Rebreanu, “Pădurea Spânzuraților”, in Forest of the Hanged, book II, chapter 7:",
"text": "Dar oare de ce s-a încurcat mama când am întrebat-o de Marta?",
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"type": "quotation"
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19,
25
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17,
23
]
],
"english": "You know I don’t bother with trifles.",
"ref": "2017, Mihai Măniuțiu, “Muza”, in Fuga cu Henri: Culegere de proze, Bucharest: Editura Humanitas, →ISBN, page 165:",
"text": "Doar știi că nu mă încurc cu mizilicuri.",
"translation": "You know I don’t bother with trifles.",
"type": "quotation"
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91,
99
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110,
116
]
],
"english": "I knew by heart the names of the six stations I would pass through, but because of nervousness I would always mix up their order…",
"ref": "1979, Margareta Sterian, Oblic peste lume, Editura Eminescu, page 63:",
"text": "Numele celor șase stații prin care treceam le știam pe dinafară, însă din cauza emoției le încurcam întotdeauna ordinea…",
"translation": "I knew by heart the names of the six stations I would pass through, but because of nervousness I would always mix up their order…",
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13
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7,
13
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[
19,
21
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],
"english": "I keep mixing them up. I must always mentally pair them with their husbands in other to remember which is which.",
"ref": "2020, Mihaela Ionescu, transl., După sfârșit, Bucharest: Trei, translation of After the End by Clare Mackintosh, →ISBN:",
"text": "Le tot încurc. Trebuie să le tot grupez mental cu soții lor ca să-mi pot aduce aminte cine e fiecare.",
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159
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172,
180
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"english": "They also allege that Gavril had held service while sozzled on some occasions, that he’d once bowed with the censer to the candles instead of the icons, and that he’d once stumbled while reading the Holy Gospel.",
"ref": "1874, Iacob Negruzzi, “Părintele Gavril [Father Gavril]”, in Copii de pe natură [Copies from nature], Bucharest: Socec, page 14:",
"text": "Ei mai susțin că Gavril ar fi slujit de căteva ori fiind cu chef, că odată s’ar fi inchinat cu cadelnița pe la sfeșnice in loc de icoane și că s’ar fi incurcat in cetirea Sfintei Evanghelii.",
"translation": "They also allege that Gavril had held service while sozzled on some occasions, that he’d once bowed with the censer to the candles instead of the icons, and that he’d once stumbled while reading the Holy Gospel.",
"type": "quotation"
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81
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79,
88
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],
"english": "And it is for women that we fall from the grace of God, […] and by joining and involving ourselves with them, […]",
"ref": "1581, Coresi, Carte cu învățătură, Brașov, page 466; edited in Sextil Pușcariu, Alexie Procopovici, editors, Carte cu învățătură, volume 1, Bucharest: Socec, 1914, page 327:",
"roman": "Și pentru mueri cădem de la Dumnezeu, […] și adăogându-ne și încurcându-ne acestora, […]",
"text": "шѝ пе́нтрꙋ мᲈе҆ри къдемь де́ла доу́мнеꙁеꙋ ,[…]шѝ а҆́дь́ꙍгъндꙋне шѝ ꙟ҆коу́ркѫндꙋне а҆че́стора ,[…]",
"translation": "And it is for women that we fall from the grace of God, […] and by joining and involving ourselves with them, […]",
"type": "quotation"
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30,
37
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19,
26
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],
"english": "Abdul was about to hook up with the visier’s daughter, forgetting all the longing and flame that he had for Dardana, and I don’t think this man as faithful in love as you make him out to be to me.",
"ref": "1835, Ioan Gherasim Gorjanu, transl., Halima, volume 2, Bucharest, translation of Arabicon Mythologicon, archived from the original on 06 May 2023, page 173:",
"roman": "Abtul puțin a lipsit să nu se încurce cu fata vezirului, uitând de tot dorul și focul ce avea cu Dardana, și nu mi se pare acest om atâta de credincios întru amor, precum mi-l lăudați voi.",
"text": "Абтꙋл пꙋцін а ліпсіт съ нꙋ се‑ꙟнкꙋрче кꙋ фата везірꙋлꙋі꙼, ꙋітѫнд де тот дорꙋл ші фокꙋл че абѣ кꙋ Дардана, ші нꙋ мі꙼ се‑паре ачест ом' атѫта де кредінчос ꙟнтрꙋ амор', прекꙋм мі'л лъꙋдаці꙼ воі꙼.",
"translation": "Abdul was about to hook up with the visier’s daughter, forgetting all the longing and flame that he had for Dardana, and I don’t think this man as faithful in love as you make him out to be to me.",
"type": "quotation"
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36
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30,
38
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"english": "People would say that dad was mixed up in some shady affairs with these people and that’s why they killed him […]",
"ref": "1997, Basarabia, number 7, Chișinău, page 120:",
"text": "Lumea vorbea că tata a fost încurcat cu aceștia în niște afaceri tenebroase și de aceea l-au omorît[…]",
"translation": "People would say that dad was mixed up in some shady affairs with these people and that’s why they killed him […]",
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27,
36
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32,
45
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],
"english": "She claims that your father had had an affair with a young woman from this town.",
"ref": "2019, Marius Michal Klimowicz, transl., O minciună perfectă, Bucharest: Litera, translation of All the beautiful lies by Peter Swanson, →ISBN:",
"text": "Ea susține că tatăl tău se încurcase cu o tânără de aici din oraș.",
"translation": "She claims that your father had had an affair with a young woman from this town.",
"type": "quotation"
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67
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65,
76
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"english": "Spiro, that mighty Spiro, that sacked the upper country,\nDoesn’t play around, crosses the Prut, seeking to rid himself of suspicion.",
"ref": "c. 1825, Alecu Beldiman, Eterie^(https://web.archive.org/web/20230624094344/https://bibl-dlr.lingv.ro/BAZA%20DE%20DATE%20DLR/CARTI/BELDIMAN/BELDIMAN,%20Eterie%20(1826)/), 1st edition, Iași, published 1861, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2023, page 56; republished in Mihail Kogălniceanu, editor, Cronicele României, 2nd edition, volume 3, Bucharest, 1874, page 382:",
"roman": "Spirul, acel falnic Spirul, ce-au prădat țara de sus,\nNu să-ncurcă, trece Prutul, vrând să easă din prepus.",
"text": "Спiрᲈл, ачел фалnik Спiрᲈл, ч’аᲈ̆ пръdаt цара dе сᲈс,\nНᲈ съ’n kᲈрkъ, tрече Прᲈtᲈл, врînd съ еасъ din препᲈс,[…]",
"translation": "Spiro, that mighty Spiro, that sacked the upper country,\nDoesn’t play around, crosses the Prut, seeking to rid himself of suspicion.",
"type": "quotation"
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57
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62,
73
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"english": "[…] when Alecsandri sets his mind on caricaturing, he doesn’t play around.",
"ref": "1906, Garabet Ibrăileanu, “Un junimist patruzecioptist: Vasile Alecsandri”, in Viața Românească, volume 2, number 4, Iași: Dacia, archived from the original on 27 May 2023, page 43; republished in Spiritul critic în cultura românească [Critical spirit in Romanian culture], 1909:",
"text": "[…]Alexandri cînd se pune pe caricaturizare, nu se-ncurcă.",
"translation": "[…] when Alecsandri sets his mind on caricaturing, he doesn’t play around.",
"type": "quotation"
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32,
41
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47,
58
]
],
"english": "Over here, when it rains, it rains, it doesn’t play around!",
"ref": "1936, George Topîrceanu, “Plouă…”, in Otilia Cazimir, editor, Postume [Posthumous works], Bucharest: Cartea Românească, published 1938:",
"text": "Pe-aici când plouă, — plouă, nu se-ncurcă!",
"translation": "Over here, when it rains, it rains, it doesn’t play around!",
"type": "quotation"
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54,
63
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38,
45
]
],
"english": "When he went home on leave he rioted, no joke, and did it pompously.",
"ref": "2014, Casiana Ioniță, transl., Inima întunericului, Bucharest: Polirom, translation of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, →ISBN:",
"text": "Când se ducea acasă în concediu, își făcea de cap, nu se-ncurca și o făcea în stil mare.",
"translation": "When he went home on leave he rioted, no joke, and did it pompously.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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25
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34,
47
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"english": "That evening old man Bodrângă had got caught up who knows where, and Pavel, not having anything to do like he had other times, had gone to bed early.",
"ref": "1882 March 1, Ion Creangă, “Amintiri din copilărie [Childhood Memories (part 3)]”, in Convorbiri Literare, volume 15, number 12, archived from the original on 06 May 2023, page 459:",
"text": "Moș Bodrăngă se incurcase nu știu pe unde in sara aceea, și Pavel neavĕnd lucru ca alte dăți, se culcase de vreme.",
"translation": "That evening old man Bodrângă had got caught up who knows where, and Pavel, not having anything to do like he had other times, had gone to bed early.",
"type": "quotation"
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19
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],
"english": "The driver lingered at Gambrinus and had forgotten about us, I had left without cash on me…",
"ref": "2016, Nora Iuga, Harald și luna verde [Harald and the Green Moon], Polirom, →ISBN:",
"text": "Șoferul se încurcase la Gambrinus și uitase de noi, plecasem fără bani la mine…",
"translation": "The driver lingered at Gambrinus and had forgotten about us, I had left without cash on me…",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to neglectfully linger somewhere"
],
"links": [
[
"linger",
"linger"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(reflexive, informal) to neglectfully linger somewhere"
],
"tags": [
"informal",
"reflexive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Romanian intransitive verbs",
"Romanian terms with quotations",
"Romanian terms with rare senses",
"Transylvanian Romanian"
],
"examples": [
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81,
88
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146,
152
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146,
153
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0,
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102,
106
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171,
175
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],
"english": "încurc, in Merișori, on the Jiu: “you bought a pair of heifers, if only you’re lucky enough that they live.” “The piglet isn’t expensive, if you’re lucky enough for it to live.” Only said of living beings.",
"ref": "1906, Alexiu Viciu, “Glosar de cuvinte dialectale din graiul viu al poporului român din Ardeal [Glossary of dialectal words in the speech of Romanians in Ardeal]”, in Analele Academiei Române [Annals of the Romanian Academy], volume 29, Bucharest, page 110:",
"text": "încurc, la Merișori, pe Jiu: „ai cumpărat o păreche de junci, de ai avè noroc să încurce“ = să trăească. „Nu-i scump purcelul, de ai avè noroc să încurce“. Se zice numai despre ființe vii.",
"translation": "încurc, in Merișori, on the Jiu: “you bought a pair of heifers, if only you’re lucky enough that they live.” “The piglet isn’t expensive, if you’re lucky enough for it to live.” Only said of living beings.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to live"
],
"links": [
[
"live",
"live"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Western Transylvania, rare, of animals; intransitive) to live"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of animals"
],
"tags": [
"Transylvania",
"Western",
"intransitive",
"rare"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Regional Romanian",
"Romanian terms with archaic senses",
"Romanian terms with quotations",
"Romanian transitive verbs"
],
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31,
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35,
42
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],
"english": "That you would tread on my lands,\n trample\nmy hayfields […]",
"ref": "1885, G. Dem. Teodorescu (gatherer), “Ghiță Cătănuță”, in Poesii populare române [Romanian folk poems], Bucharest, page 627, lines 140–143:",
"text": "Sĕ’mi calcĭ tu locurile,\nsĕ’mi încurcĭ\nfêneţele[…]",
"translation": "That you would tread on my lands,\n trample\nmy hayfields […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to trample crops"
],
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[
"regional",
"regional#English"
],
[
"trample",
"trample"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic or regional, transitive) to trample crops"
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"dialectal",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Romanian terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
"Romanian terms with obsolete senses",
"Romanian terms with quotations"
],
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92,
103
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],
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94,
98
]
],
"english": "[…] the accusations and punishments we prematurely direct to our brethren, and the schemes we plot against one another.",
"ref": "1581, Coresi, Carte cu învățătură, Brașov, page 362; edited in Sextil Pușcariu, Alexie Procopovici, editors, Carte cu învățătură, volume 1, Bucharest: Socec, 1914, page 327:",
"roman": "[…] împutăciunile și osândele fără vreame ce osândim vecinii noștri, și hitleniia ce încurcăm unul spre alalt.",
"text": "[…]ꙟ҆пᲈтѫчюниле шѝ о҆сѫ́нделе фь́рѫ врѣ́ме , чѐ о҆сѫ́ндиⷨ вечи́нїи но́щри · шѝ хи́тленїѣ чѐ ꙟ҆коу́ркѫмь оу҆нꙋль спрѐ а҆́ла́лть[…]",
"translation": "[…] the accusations and punishments we prematurely direct to our brethren, and the schemes we plot against one another.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to plot, scheme"
],
"links": [
[
"plot",
"plot"
],
[
"scheme",
"scheme"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) to plot, scheme"
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
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},
{
"rhymes": "-a"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "tangle, get tangled",
"word": "încâlci"
},
{
"sense": "bother oneself",
"word": "își bate capul"
},
{
"sense": "bother oneself",
"word": "complica"
},
{
"sense": "mix up",
"word": "confunda"
},
{
"sense": "get mixed up",
"word": "amesteca"
},
{
"sense": "live",
"word": "trăi"
}
],
"word": "încurca"
}
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