cu tot

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • cu totul — archaic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuˈtot/

Adverb

cu tot

  1. together with, not omitting, and all [with cu] [from 1643]
    • 1743, Ion Neculce, “O samă de cuvinte”, in Letopisețul Țării Moldovei [Chronicle of the country of Moldavia], section 11:
      Să fie carăle cu pește, cu boi cu tot, a voastre.
      Let the wagons of fish be yours, oxen and all.
    • 1877 August 1, Ion Creangă, “Povestea lui Harap Alb [Story of Harap Alb]”, in Convorbiri Literare‎[1], volume 11, number 5, Iași, page 187:
      […] ți le prindea cu măna din zbor, le rĕsucea gătul cu ciudă și apoi le mănca așa crude cu pene cu tot.
      […] he would catch them by hand from their flight, wring their necks with spite and then eat them like that, raw, feathers and all.
    • 1996 June 6, Lehel <[email protected]>, soc.culture.romanian‎[2] (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
      In schimb Funar iese dintr-un foc primar, cu tot cu Caritas.
      Instead Funar becomes mayor just like that, together with Caritas.
    • 2020, Ioana Maria Stăncescu, Tot ce i-am promis tatălui meu [Everything I promised my father]‎[3], Bucharest: Trei, →ISBN, page 290:
      Dacă tragi de firele astea ca să scapi, se desprind cu tot cu piele.
      If you pull on these strands in order to get away, they come off together with the skin.

Usage notes

The construction may be placed before or after its referent; modern formal usage favours the former.

  • cu toții

References

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