Kompensuar

Kompensuar is an Albanian verb meaning to compensate, make up for, or offset a loss, damage, or inconvenience, often by providing money, goods, or services. In everyday and formal language it is used to describe restoring balance between parties or mitigating a disadvantage.

Origin and forms: The term derives from Italian compensare, via Latin compensare. The word appears in the language as a past participle, kompensuar, used with auxiliary verbs to form perfect tenses and as an adjective meaning "compensated." The base form commonly appears as kompensoj in the present tense.

Usage: In contracts and law, kompensuar is used to indicate that one party pays or provides restitution for a loss. Examples include "Dëmi u kompensua" (The damage was compensated) and "kompensimi për shpenzimet" (the compensation for the expenses). It can denote actions that offset disadvantages, such as compensating for delays or providing benefits to a displaced party.

Related terms: dëmshpërblim, which also means restitution or compensation, and kompensim, the act or amount of compensation. While kompensuar is the verb form, dëmshpërblim is frequently used in legal and economic language to refer to the monetary settlement.