cu tot
Romanian
Alternative forms
- cu totul — archaic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuˈtot/
Adverb
- together with, not omitting, and all [+ cu (object)] [from 1643]
- 1743, Ion Neculce, “O samă de cuvinte”, in Letopisețul Țării Moldovei [Chronicle of the country of Moldavia], section 11:
- Să fie carăle cu pește, cu boi cu tot, a voastre.
- Let the wagons of fish be yours, oxen and all.
- 1877 August 1, Ion Creangă, “Povestea lui Harap Alb [Story of Harap Alb]”, in Convorbiri Literare, volume 11, number 5, Iași, page 187:
- […] ți le prindea cu măna din zbor, le rĕsucea gătul cu ciudă și apoi le mănca așa crude cu pene cu tot.
- […] he would catch them by hand from their flight, wring their necks with spite and then eat them like that, raw, feathers and all.
- 2020, Ioana Maria Stăncescu, Tot ce i-am promis tatălui meu [Everything I promised my father], Bucharest: Trei, →ISBN, page 290:
- Dacă tragi de firele astea ca să scapi, se desprind cu tot cu piele.
- If you pull on these strands in order to get away, they come off together with the skin.
Usage notes
The construction may be placed before or after its referent; modern formal usage favours the former.
Related terms
- cu toții
References
- tot in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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