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birou
desk /biˈrou̯/
noun#357 most common
Also: office (room or workplace), bureau (administrative body)
Example sentences
Biroul meu este mare.
My desk is big.
Lucrez la birou de luni până vineri.
I work at the office from Monday to Friday.
Pe biroul ei sunt multe hârtii.
On her desk there are many papers.
Compania a deschis un birou nou în centrul orașului.
The company opened a new office in the city center.
Angajații acestui birou se ocupă de contracte internaționale.
The employees of this office handle international contracts.
Deși biroul fusese renovat recent, mirosea încă a vopsea proaspătă.
Although the office had been renovated recently, it still smelled of fresh paint.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | birou | birouri |
| Genitive | biroului | birourilor |
| Accusative | birou | birouri |
| Vocative | birou | birouri |
Word family
birocratbureaucrat
birocrațiebureaucracy
biroticăoffice supplies and equipment
de birouoffice- (as in "office work")
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "birou" from French "bureau" during the nineteenth century, a period when Romanian absorbed many French words tied to administration and modern institutions. French "bureau" originally meant the cloth covering a writing table, from Old French "burel", a coarse wool fabric, from "bure". Over time the word shifted from the cloth to the table itself, then to the room and the institution around it. Romanian kept all these layered senses: the piece of furniture, the room, and the administrative unit.
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