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adjunct
deputy /adˈʒunkt/
adjective#3461 most common
Also: assistant, vice-, aide
Example sentences
Ion este adjunctul directorului.
Ion is the director's deputy.
Primarul adjunct a semnat documentul.
The deputy mayor signed the document.
Adjuncta mea m-a ajutat cu raportul.
My deputy (female) helped me with the report.
Directorul adjunct conduce ședința în absența șefului.
The deputy director runs the meeting while the boss is away.
Cei doi adjuncți ai ministrului au demisionat împreună.
The minister's two deputies resigned together.
Fără sprijinul adjuncților săi, primarul nu ar fi reușit să impună reforma.
Without the support of his deputies, the mayor would not have managed to push through the reform.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | adjunct | adjuncți |
| Genitive | adjunctului | adjuncților |
| Accusative | adjunct | adjuncți |
| Vocative | adjunctule | adjuncților |
Word family
adjunctăfemale deputy or assistant
adjuncțideputies (masculine plural)
joncțiunejunction, point of connection
conjuncturăconjuncture, set of circumstances
a ajungeto arrive, to reach, to manage
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "adjunct" in the 19th century from French "adjoint" and Latin "adiunctus," the past participle of "adiungere," meaning to join to something. The word entered Romanian as part of the wave of Latin-based vocabulary that modernized the language's administrative and professional terms. It kept its literal sense of being attached to a superior post, which is why it now means deputy or assistant.
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