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deceniu
decade /deˈtʃenju/
noun#5550 most common
Also: ten-year period
Example sentences
Un deceniu are zece ani.
A decade has ten years.
Am locuit acolo un deceniu.
I lived there for a decade.
În ultimul deceniu, orașul s-a schimbat mult.
In the last decade, the city has changed a lot.
Compania s-a extins constant în ultimele două decenii.
The company has expanded steadily over the last two decades.
Istoricii dezbat consecințele deceniului postbelic asupra societății.
Historians debate the consequences of the postwar decade on society.
Analiza evoluției climatice de-a lungul deceniilor precedente relevă tendințe tot mai îngrijorătoare.
The analysis of climate evolution across the preceding decades reveals increasingly worrying trends.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | deceniu | decenii |
| Genitive | deceniului | deceniilor |
| Accusative | deceniu | decenii |
| Vocative | deceniu | decenii |
Word family
decenaldecennial, occurring every ten years
anyearzecetensecolcentury (related concept, not a derivative)Etymology
Deceniu was borrowed into Romanian from French décennie during the 19th-century modernization of the language, when many abstract and scientific terms entered Romanian through French. The French word itself descends from Latin decennium, a compound of decem (ten) and annus (year). The Romanian ending -iu replaced the Latin -ium to fit native noun patterns.
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