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decent
decent (proper, respectable, appropriate) /deˈtʃent/
adjective#4959 most common
Also: fair, adequate (of pay, quality), modest, seemly (of dress, behavior)
Example sentences
El este un om decent.
He is a decent man.
Ea poartă o rochie decentă la birou.
She wears a decent dress to the office.
Trebuie să ne comportăm decent la petrecere.
We must behave decently at the party.
Salariul lui este decent pentru orașul acesta.
His salary is decent for this city.
Colegii mei sunt oameni decenți, chiar dacă nu suntem mereu de acord.
My colleagues are decent people, even if we don't always agree.
Într-o societate în care standardele morale scad, tot mai puțini oameni mai par cu adevărat decenți.
In a society where moral standards are declining, fewer and fewer people seem truly decent.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | decent | decenți |
| Genitive | decent | decenți |
| Accusative | decent | decenți |
| Vocative | decent | decenți |
Word family
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "decent" from French "décent", which in turn comes from Latin "decentem", the accusative of the present participle "decens" of the verb "decere", meaning to be fitting or suitable. The word entered Romanian in the 19th century as part of the broader wave of French and Latin-based vocabulary that modernized the language. Its root sense of "fitting" survives in the modern meaning of proper or respectable behavior.
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