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baschet
basketball (the sport) /basˈket/
noun#4307 most common
Example sentences
Eu joc baschet.
I play basketball.
Fratele meu joacă baschet la școală.
My brother plays basketball at school.
Duminică mergem să vedem un meci de baschet.
On Sunday we're going to watch a basketball game.
Terenul de baschet din parc a fost renovat anul trecut.
The basketball court in the park was renovated last year.
A început să joace baschet de performanță de la vârsta de zece ani.
He started playing competitive basketball at the age of ten.
Popularitatea baschetului a crescut considerabil în ultimii ani datorită transmisiilor televizate.
The popularity of basketball has grown considerably in recent years thanks to televised broadcasts.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | baschet | not used |
| Genitive | baschetului | not used |
| Accusative | baschet | not used |
| Vocative | not used | not used |
Word family
baschetbalistbasketball player (male)
baschetbalistăbasketball player (female)
baschetăsneaker, trainer shoe (a different word from the same French root)
teren de baschetbasketball court (fixed phrase)
Etymology
Baschet entered Romanian as a loanword from French basket, itself a clipping of basket-ball, which French took directly from English. Romanian spelling swaps the English sk for sch to keep the hard k sound before the following e, following the same pattern seen in schi (from ski). The word names the sport itself, not the object it is played with.
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