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altul
another one /ˈal.tul/
other#371 most common
Also: the other one, someone else
Example sentences
Nu vreau acesta, vreau altul.
I don't want this one, I want another one.
Acesta e stricat; dă-mi altul, te rog.
This one is broken; give me another one, please.
Unul cântă, altul dansează.
One sings, another dances.
Dacă magazinul acesta nu are pâine, mergem la altul.
If this store doesn't have bread, we'll go to another one.
Nimeni altul nu putea rezolva problema atât de repede.
No one else could solve the problem so fast.
Ce ție nu-ți place, altuia nu-i face.
Don't do to another what you wouldn't want done to yourself.
Word family
altother, another (before the noun)altfelotherwise, differentlyaltcinevasomeone elsealtundevasomewhere elsealtădatăanother time
Etymology
Altul is built from alt, meaning "other," plus the enclitic definite article -ul, meaning "the." Alt comes from Latin alter, "the other of two." The word survived across the Romance languages with the same basic sense of a second, differing option.
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