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urma.

to follow (go where someone else goes, not in pursuit)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Română language

Meaning & usage

verb/urˈma/
  1. to follow (go where someone else goes, not in pursuit)

    intransitive · transitive
    Asistenții îl urmează pe doctor în salon.
  2. to follow (be someone’s follower or partner)

    intransitive · transitive
  3. to follow (go along a physical path or a course of action)

    intransitive · transitive
    Expediția a urmat traseul fluviului.
  4. to follow (act in accordance with instructions, examples, methods etc.)

    intransitive · transitive
  5. to attend an educational institution, a course or an educational stage

    transitive
    Mihai Eminescu a urmat Universitatea din Viena.
    La vârsta de 13 ani, un copil urmează, de regulă, ciclul gimnazial.
  6. to be next, to follow, to succeed

    intransitive · transitive
    după cum urmează
    Ce urmează?
  7. to be going to

    intransitive
  8. synonym of urmări (“to pursue, have as an aim”)

    obsolete · transitive
Where this word comes from

From urmă, perhaps connected to a Vulgar Latin root *osmāre, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὀσμή (osmḗ). Compare Italian ormare, ormeggiare, also Spanish husmear, husmar, Old French osmer, Venetan usmar. Also compare adulmeca.

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