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bautură

drink (beverage) /bə.uˈtu.rə/

noun#4719 most common

Also: beverage, drinking (act of)

Example sentences

Vreau o băutură rece.
I want a cold drink.
Ce băutură preferi, cafea sau ceai?
Which drink do you prefer, coffee or tea?
Am cumpărat câteva băuturi pentru petrecere.
I bought a few drinks for the party.
Această băutură conține prea mult zahăr.
This drink contains too much sugar.
Băuturile alcoolice sunt interzise minorilor în majoritatea țărilor.
Alcoholic beverages are forbidden to minors in most countries.
Deși părea inofensivă, băutura respectivă ascundea un conținut ridicat de cofeină, care i-a afectat somnul.
Although it seemed harmless, that drink hid a high caffeine content, which affected his sleep.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativebăuturăbăuturi
Genitivebăuturibăuturi
Accusativebăuturăbăuturi
Vocativebăuturobăuturilor

Word family

a beato drink
băutdrunk (past participle), or having been consumed
băutordrinker
beatdrunk, intoxicated
băuturi alcoolicealcoholic beverages

Etymology

Băutură is formed inside Romanian from the verb a bea (to drink) plus the suffix -tură, which turns a verb into a noun naming the result of the action. A bea itself descends from Latin bibere (to drink). The Latin verb traces back to a Proto-Indo-European root for drinking, reconstructed as *peh3(i)-, seen with a reduplicated form in bibere.

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