de cum

Romanian

Conjunction

de cum

  1. immediately as soon as
    • 1953 April, Tudor Arghezi, radio conference on François Rabelais, via Radio România; first printed as “François Rabelais”, in Mitzura Arghezi, editor, Scrieri [Writings], volume 33, Bucharest: Minerva, 1983, page 337:
      De cum s-a născut, Gargantua, însetat de așteptare și furios, ceru să bea, ca un bețiv.
      As soon as he was born, Gargantua, thirsty from the wait and furious, asked to drink, like a drunkard.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see de,‎ cum.
    Sunt surprins de cum au decurs lucrurile.
    I am surprised by how things went.
    Totul este mai scump de cum era înainte.
    Everything is more expensive than how it was before.

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