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dansatoare

female dancer /dan.saˈto̯a.re/

noun#5289 most common

Also: dancing girl, danseuse

Example sentences

Ea este dansatoare.
She is a dancer.
Dansatoarea poartă o rochie roșie.
The dancer wears a red dress.
Am văzut o dansatoare talentată la spectacol.
I saw a talented dancer at the show.
Dansatoarele de balet se antrenează în fiecare zi.
The ballet dancers train every day.
Cariera unei dansatoare profesioniste este adesea scurtă.
The career of a professional dancer is often short.
Deși era doar o dansatoare de cabaret, publicul o adora pentru grația ei.
Although she was only a cabaret dancer, the audience adored her for her grace.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativedansatoaredansatoare
Genitivedansatoareidansatoarelor
Accusativedansatoaredansatoare
Vocativedansatoareodansatoarelor

Word family

a dansato dance
dansa dance
dansatormale dancer
dansantdancing, suited for dancing

Etymology

The verb "a dansa" (to dance) entered Romanian from French "danser" during the nineteenth-century wave of Romance borrowings. Romanian then built the agent noun with its own native suffix pair -tor (masculine) and -toare (feminine), the same suffix used to turn many verbs into "one who does X" nouns. So "dansatoare" is a French verb root fitted with a Romanian ending, not a direct borrowing of a French dancer word.

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