Questions & Answers about Se măsoară profilul anvelopei.
In this sentence, se măsoară is a very common Romanian way to express a passive or impersonal idea.
So Se măsoară profilul anvelopei means something like:
- The tire tread/profile is measured
- or One measures the tire tread/profile
The word se here does not mean that the tire is measuring itself. It is part of a construction Romanian often uses where English would prefer the passive.
Not really in meaning.
Even though se is also used in reflexive verbs, here the sentence is best understood as a passive-like construction, not a true reflexive. The subject is not doing the action to itself.
So:
- se spală can sometimes mean washes himself/herself
- but se măsoară profilul anvelopei means the tire tread/profile is measured
This is one of those places where Romanian uses se in a broader way than English uses self-type forms.