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cravată
necktie /kraˈva.tə/
noun#3494 most common
Also: tie
Example sentences
Tatăl meu poartă o cravată albastră.
My father wears a blue tie.
Cravata ta e foarte frumoasă.
Your tie is very beautiful.
Trebuie să-mi cumpăr o cravată nouă pentru interviu.
I need to buy myself a new tie for the interview.
Nodul cravatei s-a strâns prea tare și abia mai puteam respira.
The tie's knot got too tight and I could hardly breathe.
În dulap am câteva cravate pe care nu le mai port de ani de zile.
In the closet I have a few ties that I haven't worn in years.
Eticheta nescrisă din multe birouri impune ca bărbații să poarte cravată, deși tot mai mulți o consideră un accesoriu depășit.
The unwritten etiquette of many offices requires men to wear a tie, though more and more consider it an outdated accessory.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cravată / cravata | cravate / cravatele |
| Genitive | cravate / cravatei | cravate / cravatelor |
| Accusative | cravată / cravata | cravate / cravatele |
| Vocative | cravato | cravatelor |
Word family
cravatănecktie
încravatatwearing a tie, formally dressed
a (se) încravatato put on a tie (rare, informal)
Etymology
Romanian borrowed cravată from French cravate in the nineteenth century, part of a large wave of French loanwords that reshaped Romanian vocabulary. The French word itself goes back to Croate, meaning Croatian. Croatian mercenaries serving in France in the seventeenth century wore a knotted neckcloth that caught the eye of the French court, and the garment took the name of the people who wore it.
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