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bunică
grandmother /buˈnikə/
noun#987 most common
Also: grandma, granny
Example sentences
Bunica mea este bătrână.
My grandmother is old.
Mă duc la bunica în fiecare duminică.
I go to my grandmother's every Sunday.
Bunico, poți să-mi spui o poveste?
Grandma, can you tell me a story?
Casa bunicii este lângă râu.
Grandmother's house is next to the river.
Multe bunici din sat încă poartă costume tradiționale la sărbători.
Many grandmothers in the village still wear traditional costumes on holidays.
Amintirile despre bunica mea, țesute din povești spuse la gura sobei, rămân cele mai vii din copilăria mea.
The memories of my grandmother, woven from stories told by the stove, remain the most vivid ones from my childhood.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | bunica | bunicile |
| Genitive | bunicii | bunicilor |
| Accusative | bunica | bunicile |
| Vocative | bunico | bunicilor |
Word family
bunicgrandfather
bunicigrandparents
străbunicăgreat-grandmother
bunicuțăgranny (affectionate diminutive)
bungoodEtymology
Bunică is formed inside Romanian from bun, meaning good, plus the suffix -ică. The same pattern gives bunic, grandfather, from bun plus -ic. Bun itself goes back to Latin bonus. The kinship sense, good little one used as a term of respect for an elder woman, developed within Romanian rather than being inherited directly from a Latin word for grandmother.
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