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Romanian
Adverb
până la urmă (mildly informal)
- in the end, eventually
- Synonyms: în cele din urmă, la urma urmei
Până la urmă totul s-a terminat cu bine.- All ended well in the end.
2013 September 17, Ciprian Iancu, quoting Hunedoara villager, “Ursici, satul care a trecut de la lampa cu petrol, la energia solară [Ursici, the village that went from the oil lamp to solar energy]”, in Evenimentul zilei, number 6906, →ISSN, page 5:Prin 1986 or venit și ne-or luat 800 de lei de gospodărie ca să ne bage curent. Până la urmă nu ne-or mai băgat.- Around 1986 they came and took 800 lei per household to hook us to electricity. In the end they didn’t.
- Indicates that what was expected is no longer the case: after all
- Introduces a conclusion or synthesis of previous thoughts: at the end of the day, after all.
- Synonyms: în definitiv, la o adică, la urma urmei
2014, Lucian Boia, Balcic: micul paradis al României Mari [Balchik: the little paradise of Greater Romania], Bucharest: Humanitas, →ISBN, page 75:Poate trebuie să începem prin a ne pune întrebarea: care sunt până la urmă raporturile reginei cu cultura românească?- Perhaps we should start by asking the question: what are the queen’s ties to Romanian culture after all?
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