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crud
raw (uncooked) /krud/
adjective#3078 most common
Also: unripe, green (of fruit), harsh, cruel, unrefined, crude
Example sentences
Carnea este crudă.
The meat is raw.
Nu mânca ouă crude.
Don't eat raw eggs.
El preferă peștele crud, ca la sushi.
He prefers raw fish, like at sushi restaurants.
Legumele crude sunt mai sănătoase decât cele gătite.
Raw vegetables are healthier than cooked ones.
Adevărul crud este că mulți oameni nu au acces la apă potabilă.
The harsh truth is that many people lack access to drinking water.
Cronicarul descrie cu un realism crud ororile războiului.
The chronicler describes the horrors of war with raw, unflinching realism.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | crud (m) / crudă (f) | cruzi (m) / crude (f) |
| Genitive | crud (m) / crude (f) | cruzi (m) / crude (f) |
| Accusative | crud (m) / crudă (f) | cruzi (m) / crude (f) |
| Vocative | crud (m) / crudă (f) | cruzi (m) / crude (f) |
Word family
crudraw, uncooked; also harsh, cruel
cruzimecruelty, harshness
crudețerawness, the quality of being unripe or harsh
cruziraw (masculine plural form)
Etymology
Crud comes directly from Latin crudus, meaning raw, bloody, or unripe. That Latin word traces back to a Proto-Indo-European root tied to raw flesh and blood. The same root gave English both raw, through Germanic, and crude and cruel, through later Latin borrowings.
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