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descriere
description /des.kriˈe.re/
noun#3768 most common
Also: account, depiction
Example sentences
Aceasta este o descriere scurtă.
This is a short description.
Te rog, scrie o descriere a camerei tale.
Please write a description of your room.
Descrierea din carte este foarte detaliată.
The description in the book is very detailed.
Poliția a cerut o descriere exactă a suspectului.
The police asked for an exact description of the suspect.
Descrierile personajelor din roman surprind complexitatea psihologică a fiecăruia.
The descriptions of the characters in the novel capture each one's psychological complexity.
Precizia descrierii sale, aproape clinică, a impresionat comisia de evaluare.
The precision of his description, almost clinical, impressed the evaluation committee.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | descriere | descrieri |
| Genitive | descrierii | descrierilor |
| Accusative | descriere | descrieri |
| Vocative | descriere | descrieri |
Word family
a descrieto describe
descriptivdescriptive
descrisdescribed
nedescrisindescribable, undescribed
Etymology
Descriere is a noun built from the verb a descrie, meaning to describe. That verb comes from Latin describere, formed from de- and scribere, to write. The Latin verb spread into most Romance languages, and Romanian kept the same core sense of setting something down in words.
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