nevoi

From nevoie +‎ -i.

• IPA^(key): /ne.voˈi/

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• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ne‧vo‧i

a nevoi (third-person singular present nevoiește, past participle nevoit) 4th conjugation

1. (transitive, now exclusively in passive voice, but rarely with agent) to leave no choice, to require, to force (someone)

   Suntem nevoiți să creștem prețul abonamentelor.

   We are left with no choice but to raise the price of subscriptions.

   Prefer un loc de muncă apropiat de casă, ca să nu fiu nevoit să pierd timp pe drum.

   I prefer a job close to home, so that I’m not forced to waste time on the commute.

   • 1891, Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, “Cauza pesimizmului în literatură și viață [The cause of pessimism in literature and life]”, in Studii critice [Critical studies]‎^[1], volume 2, Bucharest: Socec, pages 348–349:

     […] până ce creșterea faptelor și descoperirilor ne va nevoi să maĭ restrângem specialitatea.

     […] until the growth of facts and discoveries will force us to narrow the domain again.

   • 2010, Mariana Bărbulescu, transl., Zaira, Iași: Polirom, translation of original by Cătălin Dorian Florescu, →ISBN, page 167:

     N-ai fost nevoit să fugi ca să-ți salvezi viața?

     Weren’t you forced to run to save your life?

2. (transitive, obsolete) to necessitate (something)
3. (reflexive, obsolete) to take pains, suffer for something
   • 1700, inscription in Church of the Holy Apostles, Horezu Monastery (IX 878), lines 4–5; published and edited in Constantin Bălan, Haralambie Chirică, Olimpia Diaconescu, editors, Inscripții medievale și din epoca modernă a României: județul istoric Vâlcea (sec. XIV–1848) [Mediaeval and modern inscriptions from Romania: the historic county of Vâlcea (14th C.–1848)], Bucharest: Romanian Academy, 2005, →ISBN, pages 585–586:

     ШЍ​Еⷹ·​СМЕРИ́ТꙊⷧ҇:​ІꙌ҆́Аⷩ҇·​МꙊⷧⷮ​МАⷨ​НЕ́ВОИⷮ·​ПЬ́НЬ​А҆́ЧАⷭ҇ТЬ​СФЬⷩ҇ТЬ​БИСѢРНКЬ·​Ꙍ҆́​Аⷨ​Иⷭ҇ПРЬВИⷮ·

     Și eu, smeritul Ioan, mult m-am nevoit
     Până această sfântă bisearică o am isprăvit.

     And much did I, the humble John, suffer
     Until I finished this holy church.

4. (reflexive, obsolete) to do one’s best, strive [catenative or with various prepositions]
5. (reflexive, obsolete) to get used [with cu or în ‘to’]
6. (reflexive or transitive, obsolete) to take care [with de ‘of’ (if reflexive)]
7. (transitive, obsolete, rare) to torment
8. (intransitive, obsolete) to resist, especially one’s own self in religious self-discipline [with dative or various prepositions]

• IPA^(key): /neˈvoj/

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• Rhymes: -oj
• Hyphenation: ne‧voi

nevoi f

1. inflection of nevoie (“need”):
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

• “nevoi”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1971), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[2], volume 7, part 1, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 378–379

From nevoda +‎ -i.

nevoi

1. adviser, counselor

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “советник”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika