parcă

See also: parca, parça, and Parca

Romanian

Alternative forms

• паркэ (parcă) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology 1

From pare (“seems”) +‎ că (“like”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpar.kə/
• Rhymes: -arkə
• Hyphenation: par‧că

Adverb

parcă (informal or literary)

1. it’s like, one could say, it’s as if…
2. Denotes uncertainty.

   Da, acum parcă am înțeles.

   Yeah, I guess I understood now.

   ―Auzi ceva? ―Parcă.

   “Can you hear anything?” “Kinda.”

   Furtuna parcă s-a liniștit.

   It seems the storm has quieted down.

3. as though
4. Remarks upon a discrepancy between previous arrangements and what is now presented: I thought…

   Să mergem la muncă? Parcă azi aveam zi liberă.

   Go to work? I thought we had today off.

Derived terms

• de parcă

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin Parca.

Noun

parcă f (plural parce)

1. (Roman mythology) one of the Fates

Declension

Declension of parcă

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) parcă	parca	(niște) parce	parcele
genitive/dative	(unei) parce	parcei	(unor) parce	parcelor
vocative	parcă, parco		parcelor

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /parˈkə/
• Rhymes: -ə
• Hyphenation: par‧că

Verb

parcă

1. third-person singular simple past indicative of parca (“to park”)

References

• parcă in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)