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beton
concrete (the building material) /beˈton/
noun#4608 most common
Also: awesome, solid, great (colloquial, invariable slang adjective)
Example sentences
Casa este construită din beton.
The house is built of concrete.
Muncitorii toarnă beton pe stradă.
The workers are pouring concrete on the street.
Podul este făcut din beton armat.
The bridge is made of reinforced concrete.
Filmul a fost beton, mi-a plăcut enorm.
The movie was awesome, I liked it a lot.
Fundația blocului necesită mai mult beton decât am estimat.
The building's foundation needs more concrete than we estimated.
Deși betonul armat rezistă bine la compresiune, trebuie combinat cu oțel pentru a face față forțelor de întindere.
Although reinforced concrete resists compression well, it must be combined with steel to withstand tensile forces.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | beton | betoane |
| Genitive | betonului | betoanelor |
| Accusative | beton | betoane |
| Vocative | beton | betoane |
Word family
betonato pour concrete, to concrete over
betonierăconcrete mixer
betonarethe act of concreting
betonatconcreted, paved with concrete
betonistconcrete worker
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "beton" directly from French "béton", which entered French from Old French "betun", tracing back to Latin "bitumen" (mineral pitch, tar). The word entered Romanian in the 19th century alongside the spread of modern construction techniques. The informal sense ("awesome") is a 20th century Romanian slang extension of the material's association with strength and solidity.
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