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accent
accent (a way of pronouncing a language) /akˈtʃent/
noun#3437 most common
Also: stress (on a syllable), emphasis
Example sentences
El are accent străin.
He has a foreign accent.
Îmi place accentul tău.
I like your accent.
Accentul ei m-a surprins la început.
Her accent surprised me at first.
Profesorul a pus accent pe pronunție.
The teacher placed emphasis on pronunciation.
Accentele regionale diferă foarte mult în România.
Regional accents differ a lot in Romania.
Deși vorbea fluent, accentul său trăda originea moldovenească.
Although he spoke fluently, his accent betrayed his Moldovan origin.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | accent | accente |
| Genitive | accent | accente |
| Accusative | accent | accente |
| Vocative | accent | accente |
Word family
accentuato stress, to accentuate
accentuatstressed, pronounced (strong)
accentuarethe act of stressing or emphasizing
neaccentuatunstressed
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "accent" from French "accent" in the 19th century, during a wave of French loanwords that modernized Romanian vocabulary. French inherited the word from Latin "accentus", a compound of "ad-" (toward) and "cantus" (song, from "canere", to sing). The Latin word itself translated the Greek grammatical term "prosōidia", meaning a tone added to speech.
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