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avans
advance payment (deposit paid before the rest is due) /aˈvans/
noun#2711 most common
Also: down payment, lead (in a race or score), advance (on salary)
Example sentences
Am plătit un avans pentru mașină.
I paid a deposit for the car.
Vânzătorul cere un avans de zece la sută.
The seller asks for a 10% down payment.
Trebuie să dăm un avans înainte de a semna contractul.
We have to give an advance before signing the contract.
Echipa noastră a luat un avans de două goluri în prima repriză.
Our team took a two-goal lead in the first half.
Firma i-a acordat un avans din salariu pentru cheltuieli neprevăzute.
The company gave him an advance on his salary for unforeseen expenses.
Negocierile s-au blocat din cauza divergențelor privind avansul cerut de furnizor.
The negotiations stalled over disagreements about the advance payment demanded by the supplier.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | avans / avansul | avansuri / avansurile |
| Genitive | avans / avansului | avansuri / avansurilor |
| Accusative | avans / avansul | avansuri / avansurile |
| Vocative | avansule | avansurilor |
Word family
avansato advance, to pay or move ahead of schedule
avansatadvanced
avansarepromotion, advancement
avansuriadvances, down payments (plural)
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "avans" from French "avance", with reinforcement from German "Avance/Avans", both meaning a sum paid or a lead gained before the rest follows. French "avance" traces back through Vulgar Latin "abantiare" to the Latin preposition "ante", meaning before or in front. The word entered Romanian in the 19th century as part of a wave of French-derived commercial and administrative vocabulary.
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