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carțe
book (Moldavian dialectal pronunciation of "carte") /ˈkart͡se/
noun#2098 most common
Also: written document, charter (archaic/regional sense)
Example sentences
Copilul citește o carțe.
The child is reading a book.
Carțea e pe masă.
The book is on the table.
Mi-am cumpărat o carțe nouă de la târg.
I bought myself a new book at the fair.
Bunica zicea că orice carțe bună merită citită de două ori.
Grandma used to say that any good book deserves to be read twice.
În sat, bătrânii mai spun și acum «carțe» în loc de «carte», păstrând vechea rostire moldovenească.
In the village, the old folks still say "carțe" instead of "carte" today, keeping the old Moldavian pronunciation alive.
Dacă asculți grăirea din nordul Moldovei, observi cum «te» devine «țe», ca în cuvântul carțe, moștenit din vorbirea satului vechi.
If you listen to the speech of northern Moldova, you notice how "te" turns into "țe," as in the word carțe, inherited from the old village speech.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | carțe (dial.) / carte (std.) | cărți |
| Genitive | cărții | cărților |
| Accusative | carțe (dial.) / carte (std.) | cărți |
| Vocative | carte | cărților |
Word family
cartestandard-Romanian form: book
cărticicălittle book, booklet
cărturarlearned person, scholar
carte de vizităbusiness card, literally 'visiting book/paper'
Etymology
The standard form is "carte," from Latin "charta," meaning a sheet of papyrus or paper, which in turn came from Greek "khartēs." "Carțe" is not a separate word but a regional pronunciation found in the Moldavian subdialect of Romanian, where the plain consonant "t" before "e" or "i" is affricated to "ț," a feature dialectologists call "țăcănit." This shift turns "carte" into "carțe" in everyday rural speech in parts of northeastern Romania and the Republic of Moldova.
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