păți Verb, păți ▼ ▶

1. (ambitransitive) 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. (informal, with placeholder o) to be in trouble, get it, get what's coming to one
3. (archaic, ambitransitive) to experience trouble, suffer (until early 19th c.)
   Synonyms: îndura, pătimi, răbda

Appox. usage (any sense): 0.808 per million words

-ești Suffix, -ești

1. Used with a stem to form the second-person singular present of most regular -i (fourth conjugation) verbs. E.g. unești, tușești, ferești, pățești, urăști.

Appox. usage (any sense): 0.18 per million words

păți Verb, păți

1. definition not found for this word

Appox. usage (any sense): 135 per million words

-esc Suffix, -esc

1. Used with a stem to form the first-person singular and third-person plural present of most regular -i (fourth conjugation) verbs. E.g. unesc, tușesc, feresc, pățesc, urăsc.

Appox. usage (any sense): less than 0.1 per million words

-ește Suffix, -ește

1. Used with a stem to form the third-person singular present of most regular -i (fourth conjugation) verbs. E.g. unește, tușește, ferește, pățește, urăște.

Appox. usage (any sense): less than 0.1 per million words