Se măsoară profilul anvelopei.

the tire tread

Breakdown of Se măsoară profilul anvelopei.

• a măsura: to measure

Questions & Answers about Se măsoară profilul anvelopei.

Why does the sentence use se măsoară instead of just măsoară?

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.

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Is se măsoară reflexive here?

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.

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Why is the verb măsoară singular?