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șase

six /ˈʃa.se/

adjective#3829 most common

Example sentences

Am șase mere.
I have six apples.
Fiul meu are șase ani.
My son is six years old.
Ne vedem la ora șase.
We'll meet at six o'clock.
Din cele șase camere, doar două au ferestre.
Of the six rooms, only two have windows.
Echipa a câștigat șase meciuri la rând înainte de a pierde.
The team won six matches in a row before losing.
Dacă am fi plecat cu șase minute mai devreme, am fi prins trenul de dimineață.
If we had left six minutes earlier, we would have caught the morning train.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeșaseșase
Genitiveșaseșase
Accusativeșaseșase
Vocativeșaseșase

Word family

șaisprezecesixteen
șaizecisixty
al șaseleathe sixth (masculine)
a șaseathe sixth (feminine)
șase sutesix hundred

Etymology

Șase comes from the Latin numeral sex, meaning six. Romanian shows a regular shift of Latin initial s before certain vowels to ș, the same pattern seen in șapte from septem. The word has stayed a basic, unchanged part of the language since Latin times.

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