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cușcă
cage /ˈkuʃkə/
noun#4124 most common
Also: kennel (doghouse), defendant's dock (in a courtroom), elevator car/shaft
Example sentences
Papagalul este în cușcă.
The parrot is in the cage.
Am cumpărat o cușcă nouă pentru hamster.
I bought a new cage for the hamster.
Câinele doarme în cușca lui din curte.
The dog sleeps in his kennel in the yard.
Trebuie să curățăm cuștile păsărilor în fiecare săptămână.
We have to clean the birds' cages every week.
Avocatul apărării s-a apropiat de cușca acuzaților pentru a-i vorbi clientului său.
The defense lawyer approached the defendant's dock to speak to his client.
Tehnicianul a verificat cablurile care susțin cușca liftului înainte de a permite din nou accesul.
The technician checked the cables holding up the elevator car before allowing access again.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cușcă | cuști |
| Genitive | cuști | cuștilor |
| Accusative | cușcă | cuști |
| Vocative | cușco | cuștilor |
Word family
cușculițăsmall cage or hutch (diminutive)
cușca acuzațilorthe defendant's dock in a courtroom
cușcă de păsăribirdcage
cușca liftuluithe elevator car or shaft enclosure
Etymology
Romanian dictionaries trace "cușcă" to a South Slavic source connected to words for "house" or "hut." The meaning narrowed as the word entered Romanian, coming to denote a small structure built to hold an animal rather than a person. Over time speakers extended it further, to the dock where a defendant stands in court and to the enclosed car of an elevator.
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