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destin
destiny, fate /desˈtin/
noun#1832 most common
Also: lot in life, fortune
Example sentences
Ea crede în destin.
She believes in destiny.
Fiecare om are un destin.
Every person has a destiny.
Nu poți schimba destinul cuiva.
You cannot change someone's fate.
Destinul lor a fost pecetluit de acea decizie.
Their fate was sealed by that decision.
Poetul a scris despre destinele tragice ale eroilor săi.
The poet wrote about the tragic fates of his heroes.
Filosofia stoică susține că trebuie să ne împăcăm cu destinul, oricât de nedrept ni s-ar părea.
Stoic philosophy holds that we must make peace with fate, however unjust it may seem to us.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | destinul | destinele |
| Genitive | destinului | destinelor |
| Accusative | destinul | destinele |
| Vocative | destinule | destinelor |
Word family
a destinato destine, to intend something for a purpose
destinatdestined, intended, earmarked
destinatarrecipient, addressee
destinațiedestination
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "destin" from French "destin" in the modern period, part of a wave of French loanwords that reshaped Romanian vocabulary in the 19th century. The French word goes back to Latin "destinare", meaning to fix firmly or determine, built from the prefix "de-" and a root shared with "stare", to stand. The core image is something set firmly in place, which shifted over time to mean a fixed course of events in a life.
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