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câștigător
winner /kɨʃ.ti.ɡəˈtor/
noun#3710 most common
Also: winning (as in the winning one), victor
Example sentences
Câștigătorul primește un premiu.
The winner receives a prize.
Ea a fost câștigătoarea concursului.
She was the winner of the contest.
Echipa noastră a fost câștigătoare anul trecut.
Our team was the winning one last year.
Numele câștigătorului va fi anunțat mâine seară.
The winner's name will be announced tomorrow evening.
Câștigătorii loteriei au primit peste un milion de euro.
The lottery winners received over a million euros.
Oricine ar fi câștigătorul, decizia juriului rămâne definitivă.
Whoever the winner turns out to be, the jury's decision remains final.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | câștigător | câștigători |
| Genitive | câștigătorului | câștigătorilor |
| Accusative | câștigător | câștigători |
| Vocative | câștigătorule | câștigătorilor |
Word family
a câștigato win, to earn
câștiggain, winnings, prize moneycâștigatwon, earnedcâștigătoarefemale winner, winning (feminine form)
necâștigatunwon, unearned
Etymology
Câștigător is built from the verb a câștiga, "to win" or "to earn," plus the agent suffix -tor. The verb itself has an unusual past: Romanian took it from a Slavic source, which had earlier borrowed the Latin verb castigare, "to punish, to correct." In Slavic usage the meaning drifted toward "to obtain, to gain," and Romanian inherited that shifted sense as "to win or earn." So câștigător literally means "the one who wins or earns."
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