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clasă

class (a school grade/group, or a social/category division) /ˈkla.sə/

noun#776 most common

Also: classroom, social class, travel class (e.g. first class)

Example sentences

Copilul merge la clasă.
The child goes to class.
Sunt cinci elevi noi în clasa noastră.
There are five new students in our class.
Am călătorit cu avionul la clasa business.
I traveled by plane in business class.
Profesorul a intrat în clasă și a început lecția.
The teacher entered the classroom and started the lesson.
Conflictul de clasă a marcat istoria secolului al XIX-lea.
Class conflict marked the history of the 19th century.
Sistemul educațional românesc împarte elevii pe clase în funcție de vârstă.
The Romanian education system divides students into classes according to age.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeclasă / clasaclase / clasele
Genitiveclase / claseiclase / claselor
Accusativeclasă / clasaclase / clasele
Vocativeclasăclase

Word family

clasificato classify
clasificareclassification
clasicclassic, classical
clasorring binder, folder
clasamentranking, standings

Etymology

Clasă entered Romanian in the 19th century as part of a wave of French and Latin borrowings that modernized the language. It traces back to Latin classis, which originally meant a division of Roman citizens or a fleet of ships, and later came to mean any grouped category. The word spread through most of Europe with this same core sense of an ordered grouping.

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