to feel (well, bad, tired) — a se simți
Reflexive, about your own state. This is the health question and the health answer.
Mă simt bine.
I feel well.
Cum te simți?
How do you feel?
#116 · Verb
simți
In Romanian, simți means “to feel (well, bad, tired) — a se simți”. It’s the #116 most frequently used Romanian word. Below you’ll find how to use it, its forms, real example sentences, and common word pairings.
Meaning & Use
A simți is "to feel". Rank 116, and the thing to learn first is that how YOU feel takes the reflexive: Mă simt bine, "I feel well". Without the pronoun, simt means you feel something else — a smell, a pain, a presence. The pronoun decides whether you are the one being felt or the one doing the feeling.
neutralto feel / to sense (something)
Non-reflexive, with an object: a pain, a smell, a change in the air.
Simt un miros ciudat.
I smell something odd.
Nu simt nimic.
I don't feel anything.
to have a feeling that
With că, for intuition rather than sensation.
Simt că are dreptate.
I feel he is right.
to miss (a simți lipsa)
The fixed phrase a simți lipsa cuiva — "to feel somebody’s absence".
Îi simt lipsa.
I miss him.
Forms you’ll actually hear
Ranked by how often each form shows up in spoken Romanian. The top 3 forms cover about 81% of everyday use — learn these first.
simt35%
simți33%
simțit12%
Show 10 more forms
simte11%
simțiți3%
simtă2%
simțim2%
simțea<1%
simțeau<1%
simțeai<1%
simțind<1%
simțită<1%
simțisem<1%
Conjugation
- Infinitive
- a simți
- Past Participle
- simțit
- Gerund
- simțind
- Imperative Singular
- simte
- Imperative Plural
- simțiți
- Auxiliary
- a avea
- Reflexive
- No
- Transitivity
- both
| Tense | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present | simt | simți | simte | simțim | simțiți | simt |
| Imperfect | simțeam | simțeai | simțea | simțeam | simțeați | simțeau |
| Perfect compus | am simțit | ai simțit | a simțit | am simțit | ați simțit | au simțit |
| Future | voi simți | vei simți | va simți | vom simți | veți simți | vor simți |
| Conditional | aș simți | ai simți | ar simți | am simți | ați simți | ar simți |
| Subjunctive | să simt | să simți | să simtă | să simțim | să simțiți | să simtă |
- The reflexive a se simți conjugates identically with the pronoun in front: mă simt, te simți, se simte, ne simțim, vă simțiți, se simt.
- Like a auzi, this -i verb takes no -esc: simt and simte, never *simțesc.
- The 2nd-singular present simți is identical to the infinitive, so the pronoun or the să is what tells them apart.
Examples
Cum te simți azi?
How do you feel today?
simți - The reflexive te is what makes this about the listener’s own state. Without it the question would ask what they can sense.
Mă simt mai bine, mulțumesc.
I feel better, thank you.
simt - mai bine is the comparative of the adverb bine. Note bine, not bun — it modifies the verb.
Nu simt nimic.
I can't feel anything.
simt - Non-reflexive, about sensation. The double negative nu … nimic is obligatory.
Se simte că e obosit.
You can tell he is tired.
simte - The impersonal se simte că, "one can feel that" — the Romanian equivalent of English "you can tell".
Vreau să mă simt acasă aici.
I want to feel at home here.
să mă simt - After vreau să the reflexive pronoun stays in front of the verb, inside the subjunctive.
Nu s-a simțit bine toată ziua.
He hasn't felt well all day.
simțit - The reflexive compound past: se plus a contracts to s-a. toată ziua is a time phrase with no preposition.
For your own state the pronoun is compulsory: Mă simt bine. Saying *Simt bine means you are sensing something well, which is not what a Romanian expects to hear when they ask how you are.
In expressions
Common phrases built around simți — worth learning as whole units.
mă simt— I feel (+ how)
lit. “myself I-feel”
a se simți bine— to feel good, to feel well
lit. “to feel oneself well” · clitic marks the experiencer: mă simt bine (I), te simți bine (you)