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copilă
young girl /koˈpi.lə/
noun#2982 most common
Also: girl child, maiden (literary)
Example sentences
Copila zâmbește.
The little girl smiles.
O copilă mică se joacă în parc.
A small girl is playing in the park.
Copila aceea seamănă foarte mult cu mama ei.
That girl looks a lot like her mother.
Când era copilă, locuia la țară.
When she was a young girl, she lived in the countryside.
Poetul își amintește de copila cu ochi albaștri din satul natal.
The poet remembers the girl with blue eyes from his native village.
În roman, copila orfană înfruntă cu curaj greutățile vieții de zi cu zi.
In the novel, the orphan girl bravely faces the hardships of daily life.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | copila | copilele |
| Genitive | copilei | copilelor |
| Accusative | copila | copilele |
| Vocative | copilo | copilelor |
Word family
copilchild, boy
copilașlittle child, small boy (diminutive)
copilăriechildhood
copilărescchildish, childlike
copilăreștein a childish way
Etymology
Copilă is the feminine form of copil, the Romanian word for child. The origin of copil itself is not settled; most Romanian dictionaries mark it as being of uncertain, likely pre-Latin substrate origin, with no confirmed source word. The feminine suffix -ă was added to copil to mark a female child, the same pattern used across many Romanian nouns.
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