Learn Romanian › adolescent
adolescent
teenager /a.do.leˈstʃent/
noun#4878 most common
Also: adolescent, teenage boy, youth
Example sentences
Adolescentul ascultă muzică în camera lui.
The teenager listens to music in his room.
Ea are un fiu adolescent.
She has a teenage son.
Mulți adolescenți petrec prea mult timp pe telefon.
Many teenagers spend too much time on their phones.
Adolescenta a refuzat să vorbească despre problemele ei.
The teenage girl refused to talk about her problems.
Psihologul lucrează cu adolescenți care suferă de anxietate.
The psychologist works with teenagers who suffer from anxiety.
Comportamentul rebel al adolescenților reflectă adesea o căutare a identității proprii.
The rebellious behavior of teenagers often reflects a search for their own identity.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | adolescent / adolescentul | adolescenți / adolescenții |
| Genitive | unui adolescent / adolescentului | unor adolescenți / adolescenților |
| Accusative | adolescent / adolescentul | adolescenți / adolescenții |
| Vocative | adolescentule | adolescenților |
Word family
adolescentăteenage girl
adolescențăadolescence, the teenage years
adolescentinadolescent-like, of or typical of the teenage years
preadolescentpreteen
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "adolescent" from French in the 19th century, as part of a wave of Latinate vocabulary that reshaped the language during its modernization. The French word descends from Latin "adolescens", the present participle of "adolescere", meaning "to grow up". That verb combines the prefix "ad-" (toward) with "alescere", an inchoative form of "alere" (to nourish, to make grow).
Learn Romanian the way that sticks.
Every word here is a full Polylex card with native audio and spaced repetition, so 4,027 words actually move into long-term memory.
Start free
Every word here is a full Polylex card with native audio and spaced repetition, so 4,027 words actually move into long-term memory.
Start free