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apă
water /ˈa.pə/
noun#279 most common
Also: waters (a body of water, e.g. a river or sea)
Example sentences
Beau apă rece.
I drink cold water.
Apa din pahar este caldă.
The water in the glass is warm.
Am umplut sticla cu apă de la robinet.
I filled the bottle with water from the tap.
Nivelul apelor a crescut brusc după furtună.
The water level rose suddenly after the storm.
Pescarii cunosc bine apele adânci ale lacului.
The fishermen know the deep waters of the lake well.
A trecut multă apă pe gârlă de când ne-am cunoscut.
A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since we met.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | apă | ape |
| Genitive | apei | apelor |
| Accusative | apă | ape |
| Vocative | apă | ape |
Word family
Etymology
Apă descends directly from Latin aqua, water, through the ordinary sound changes that turned spoken Latin into Romanian. It picked up the feminine -ă ending typical of Romanian nouns drawn from Latin's first declension. The word belongs to the oldest, inherited layer of Romanian vocabulary, not to a later borrowing. Other Romance languages kept the same Latin root but shaped it differently over time.
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