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dar
but /ˈdar/
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Also: yet, however, still
Example sentences
Vreau cafea, dar nu am zahăr.
I want coffee, but I don't have sugar.
Fata e mică, dar foarte deșteaptă.
The girl is small, but very clever.
Am vrut să merg la plajă, dar a început să plouă.
I wanted to go to the beach, but it started to rain.
Îmi place orașul acesta, dar traficul este groaznic.
I like this city, but the traffic is terrible.
Nu e ieftin, dar merită fiecare leu cheltuit.
It's not cheap, but it's worth every leu spent.
Negocierile s-au prelungit ore în șir, dar, în cele din urmă, ambele părți au ajuns la un acord care părea imposibil cu doar o zi înainte.
The negotiations dragged on for hours, but, in the end, both parties reached an agreement that had seemed impossible just a day before.
Word family
darămitelet alone, still less/more
dargift, present (homonym, unrelated in current meaning)a dăruito give as a gift, to donate
daniedonation (archaic/religious)
Etymology
Romanian dictionaries trace the conjunction dar to a Slavic source, the same form found in Bulgarian and Serbian dar. Exactly how a word meaning 'gift' in those languages settled into an everyday contrastive conjunction meaning 'but' in Romanian is not fully explained, and the semantic path is treated as unresolved by etymologists. In modern Romanian, dar the conjunction and dar the noun meaning 'gift' function as separate homonyms, even though both ultimately sit in the same Slavic word family.
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