Inherited from Latin lūbricāre (“make slippery”). The original form was the now-obsolete lureca as intervocalic -r- and -n- are occasionally mixed in Romanian phonological evolution (cf. senin from serēnus and mărunt from minūtus), probably the result of anti-rhotacism in response to rhoticism in Transylvanian dialects, in which case these terms were percieved as having been rhoticised. The -b- in the Latin consonant cluster -br- usually disappears in transitioning to Romanian (cf. faur < fabrum, fior < febris, and fereca < fabricāre).
a aluneca (third-person singular present alunecă, past participle alunecat, third-person subjunctive alunece) 1st conjugation (intransitive)
| infinitive | a aluneca | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | alunecând | ||||||
| past participle | alunecat | ||||||
| number | singular | plural | |||||
| person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
| indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
| present | alunec | aluneci | alunecă | alunecăm | alunecați | alunecă | |
| imperfect | alunecam | alunecai | aluneca | alunecam | alunecați | alunecau | |
| simple perfect | alunecai | alunecași | alunecă | alunecarăm | alunecarăți | alunecară | |
| pluperfect | alunecasem | alunecaseși | alunecase | alunecaserăm | alunecaserăți | alunecaseră | |
| subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
| present | să alunec | să aluneci | să alunece | să alunecăm | să alunecați | să alunece | |
| imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
| affirmative | alunecă | alunecați | |||||
| negative | nu aluneca | nu alunecați | |||||