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camionetă
small truck (van, pickup truck) /ka.mjoˈne.tə/
noun#3584 most common
Also: van, pickup truck, light truck
Example sentences
Camioneta este albă.
The van is white.
Tatăl meu are o camionetă veche.
My father has an old van.
Am încărcat cutiile în camionetă.
I loaded the boxes into the van.
Vânzătorul de legume vine cu camioneta în fiecare dimineață, chiar și pe ploaie.
The vegetable seller comes with his van every morning, even in the rain.
Firma a cumpărat două camionete noi pentru livrările din weekend.
The company bought two new vans for the weekend deliveries.
Camioneta pe care mecanicul o reparase cu o săptămână în urmă s-a defectat din nou, chiar înainte de livrare.
The van that the mechanic had repaired a week earlier broke down again, right before the delivery.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | camionetă | camionete |
| Genitive | camionete | camionete |
| Accusative | camionetă | camionete |
| Vocative | camionetă | camionete |
Word family
camiontruck, lorry
camionagiutruck driver, hauler (dated or regional)
camionajtrucking, road haulage
camionisttruck driver
Etymology
Camionetă was borrowed from French camionnette, the diminutive of camion, meaning truck. Romanian adapted the French diminutive ending -ette into the native feminine ending -etă. The word entered Romanian in the twentieth century along with the vehicles themselves.
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