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cină
dinner (the evening meal) /ˈt͡ʃi.nə/
noun#508 most common
Also: supper, evening meal
Example sentences
Cina este gata!
Dinner is ready!
Luăm cina la ora șapte.
We have dinner at seven o'clock.
Ce gătești pentru cină în seara asta?
What are you cooking for dinner tonight?
După cină, copiii își fac temele.
After dinner, the children do their homework.
Cina de sărbători a fost pregătită cu multă grijă.
The holiday dinner was prepared with great care.
Pregătirile cinei au durat toată după-amiaza, iar invitații au sosit exact când mâncarea era pe masă.
The preparations for the dinner took the whole afternoon, and the guests arrived exactly when the food was on the table.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cină | cine |
| Genitive | cine | cine |
| Accusative | cină | cine |
| Vocative | cino | cine |
Word family
a cinato have dinner, to dine
cinatdined, eaten as dinner (rare, participial use)
cinuțăsmall, informal dinner (diminutive)
Etymology
Cină comes from Latin cena, meaning the main evening meal. The word survived in everyday Romanian largely unchanged, keeping its core sense of a formal or family meal taken at the end of the day. It sits alongside prânz (lunch) and mic dejun (breakfast) in the standard three-meal vocabulary.
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