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afacere
business deal, transaction /a.faˈtʃe.re/
noun#320 most common
Also: business (enterprise), affair (matter), deal
Example sentences
Aceasta este o afacere bună.
This is a good deal.
El are o afacere mică în centrul orașului.
He has a small business in the city center.
Am încheiat o afacere importantă cu compania lor.
We closed an important deal with their company.
Afacerea s-a dovedit mai riscantă decât credeam inițial.
The deal turned out to be riskier than we initially thought.
Guvernul a fost acuzat că a favorizat afacerile unor apropiați ai puterii.
The government was accused of favoring the businesses of certain associates close to those in power.
Complexitatea afacerii, cu ramificații în mai multe jurisdicții fiscale, a îngreunat considerabil ancheta.
The complexity of the deal, with ramifications in several tax jurisdictions, considerably hampered the investigation.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | afacere | afaceri |
| Genitive | afacerii | afacerilor |
| Accusative | afacere | afaceri |
| Vocative | afacere | afaceri |
Word family
a faceto do, to make
faptfact, deedafaceristwheeler-dealer, shady businessman (informal, often negative)
om de afaceribusinessman
Etymology
Afacere is built on the Romanian verb a face, to do or make, itself from Latin facere. The prefix a- and the suffix -re follow a common Romanian pattern that turns a verb into a feminine noun naming the action, the same pattern seen in vedere (sight, from a vedea) or plecare (departure, from a pleca). The shape and meaning of afacere were also reinforced by French affaire, which itself descends from a faire, to do, so the word sits at the crossing point of native Romanian word formation and French influence.
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