păți

See also: pati, Pati, patì, patí, patî, pátí, pâti, päti, pāti, pātī, and -pati

Romanian

Alternative forms

• пэци (păți) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *patīre, from Latin patī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈt͡si/

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• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: pă‧ți

Verb

a păți (third-person singular present pățește or (archaic or regional) pate, past participle pățit) 4th conj.

1. (transitive, intransitive or catenative) to have something, chiefly negative or sometimes neutral, happen to oneself

   Știi ce am pățit azi?

   Do you know what happened to me today?

   (literally, “Do you know what I had happen to me today?”)

   Minerii au pățit și să rămână fără lumină.

   The miners have also [on various occasions] been left without light.

   (literally, “The miners have also had it happen to them to be left without light.”)

   Așa merită să pățească cine încalcă legea.

   This is what those breaking the law deserve.

   (literally, “He who breaks the law deserves to have [it] happen to him thusly.”)

   Fabrica a fost evacuată după ce cineva a pățit un accident.

   The factory was evacuated after someone had an accident happen to himself.

2. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) to experience trouble, suffer [until early 19th c.]

   Synonyms: îndura, pătimi, răbda

Usage notes

In its most common usage, transitive păți usually receives objects in the form of subordinate sentences or various interrogative or negative pronouns, and less commonly in the form of a noun. When intransitive, păți is usually in reference to adverbs of manner, anaphoric (așa, astfel) or interrogative (cum), and less commonly to regular adverbs (in which case transitive use with placeholder o would be more usual).

Conjugation

    conjugation of păți (fourth conjugation, -esc- infix)

infinitive			a păți
gerund			pățind
past participle			pățit
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	pățesc	pățești	pățește	pățim	pățiți	pățesc
	imperfect	pățeam	pățeai	pățea	pățeam	pățeați	pățeau
	simple perfect	pății	pățiși	păți	pățirăm	pățirăți	pățiră
	pluperfect	pățisem	pățiseși	pățise	pățiserăm	pățiserăți	pățiseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să pățesc	să pățești	să pățească	să pățim	să pățiți	să pățească
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		pățește			pățiți
	negative		nu păți			nu pățiți

Derived terms

• o păți
• pătăranie
• pățanie
• pățeală
• pățire
• pățit

Related terms

• pacient
• pasiune

References

• păți in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1972), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[1], volume 8, part 1, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 348–349

Anagrams

• piță, țipă