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împrumut

loan /ɨmpruˈmut/

noun#2171 most common

Also: borrowing, the act of lending

Example sentences

Am nevoie de un împrumut.
I need a loan.
Banca mi-a dat un împrumut.
The bank gave me a loan.
Am luat un împrumut de la bancă pentru casă.
I took out a loan from the bank for the house.
Dobânda la acest împrumut este foarte mare.
The interest on this loan is very high.
Trebuie să rambursez împrumutul până la sfârșitul anului.
I have to repay the loan by the end of the year.
Guvernul a contractat un împrumut extern pentru a finanța deficitul bugetar.
The government took out a foreign loan to finance the budget deficit.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeîmprumutulîmprumuturile
Genitiveîmprumutuluiîmprumuturilor
Accusativeîmprumutulîmprumuturile
Vocativeîmprumutuleîmprumuturilor

Word family

a împrumutato lend or to borrow
împrumutatborrowed, lent
împrumutătorlender
împrumutarethe act of lending or borrowing

Etymology

Împrumut is a noun built from the verb a împrumuta, which goes back to Vulgar Latin impromutuare, itself formed from the prefix in- plus mutuare, related to Latin mutuus, meaning borrowed or mutual. The prefix î(m)- marks direction into a state, so the word originally pictured putting something into a mutual exchange. Romanian kept this as its plain word for a loan, both in everyday speech and in banking.

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