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cursă
race /ˈkur.sə/
noun#953 most common
Also: route/trip (of a bus, flight, or taxi), trap
Example sentences
Copiii fac o cursă până la poartă.
The children have a race to the gate.
Cursa de autobuz pleacă la ora opt.
The bus route leaves at eight o'clock.
Am prins un șoarece în cursă.
I caught a mouse in the trap.
Cursa aeriană spre Paris a fost anulată din cauza ceții.
The flight to Paris was cancelled because of fog.
A câștigat cursa cu un timp excelent, deși a plouat pe tot parcursul.
He won the race with an excellent time, even though it rained the whole way through.
Mulți angajați simt că viața lor a devenit o cursă a șoarecilor, fără scop clar.
Many employees feel their life has become a rat race, without a clear purpose.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cursă / cursa | curse / cursele |
| Genitive | cursei | curselor |
| Accusative | cursă / cursa | curse / cursele |
| Vocative | cursă | curselor |
Word family
curscourse; exchange rate
a parcurgeto travel through, to cover a distance
concurscontest, competitionexcursieexcursion, tripcurentcurrent; ongoingEtymology
Cursă comes from Latin cursa, the feminine form of cursus, the past participle of currere, meaning to run. The word entered Romanian through the ordinary evolution of Latin vocabulary in the region, keeping the core sense of a run or a course covered. Over time it branched out to cover a race, a scheduled trip or route, and, by extension, a trap, since a trap also involves a chase or a run for the prey.
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