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autostradă
highway /au̯.tosˈtra.də/
noun#3027 most common
Also: motorway, freeway
Example sentences
Mașina merge pe autostradă.
The car is driving on the highway.
Ne întoarcem acasă pe autostradă.
We are going home on the highway.
Am condus pe autostradă până la mare.
I drove on the highway all the way to the sea.
Autostrăzile din România sunt încă puține.
Romania's highways are still few.
Construcția autostrăzii a durat mai mulți ani.
The construction of the highway took several years.
Guvernul a promis finalizarea autostrăzilor care leagă vestul de estul țării, dar termenele au fost amânate repetat.
The government promised to finish the highways linking the west of the country to the east, but the deadlines have been pushed back repeatedly.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | autostradă | autostrăzi |
| Genitive | autostrăzi | autostrăzilor |
| Accusative | autostradă | autostrăzi |
| Vocative | autostradă | autostrăzi |
Word family
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "autostradă" from Italian "autostrada" in the twentieth century, as Italy built one of Europe's first motorway networks in the 1920s and 1930s. The Italian word is a compound of "auto" (car) and "strada" (street, road). "Strada" descends from Latin "via strata," a paved road, from the verb "sternere," to spread or pave.
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