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asistent
assistant /a.sisˈtent/
noun#1830 most common
Also: aide, helper
Example sentences
El este asistent medical.
He is a medical assistant.
Asistentul meu mă ajută în fiecare zi.
My assistant helps me every day.
Am vorbit cu asistentul profesorului despre proiect.
I spoke with the professor's assistant about the project.
Asistenții de laborator verifică echipamentele înainte de experiment.
The lab assistants check the equipment before the experiment.
Fără sprijinul asistenților medicali, spitalul nu ar putea funcționa eficient.
Without the support of the medical assistants, the hospital could not function efficiently.
Asistentule, te rog să notezi toate observațiile pacientului până la sfârșitul turei.
Assistant, please note down all the patient's observations by the end of the shift.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | asistent / asistentul | asistenți / asistenții |
| Genitive | (unui) asistent / asistentului | (unor) asistenți / asistenților |
| Accusative | (pe) asistent / asistentul | (pe) asistenți / asistenții |
| Vocative | asistentule | asistenților |
Word family
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "asistent" from French "assistant" during the 19th-century modernization of the language, when many Latinate and French terms replaced older Slavic or Ottoman-derived vocabulary. The word traces back to Latin "assistens", the present participle of "assistere", meaning to stand by or attend. That verb is built from "ad-" (toward) plus "sistere" (to stand, place), a reduplicated form tied to the verb "stare" (to stand).
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