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dezastru
disaster /deˈzastru/
noun#1978 most common
Also: mess, catastrophe
Example sentences
Camera mea e un dezastru.
My room is a disaster.
Vremea a provocat un dezastru natural.
The weather caused a natural disaster.
Echipa noastră a suferit un dezastru total în meciul de aseară.
Our team suffered a total disaster in last night's match.
Guvernul încearcă să gestioneze consecințele dezastrului ecologic.
The government is trying to manage the consequences of the ecological disaster.
Dezastrele naturale din ultimii ani au afectat milioane de oameni.
Natural disasters in recent years have affected millions of people.
Fără o intervenție promptă, criza economică s-ar fi transformat într-un dezastru fără precedent.
Without prompt intervention, the economic crisis would have turned into an unprecedented disaster.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dezastru | dezastre |
| Genitive | dezastrului | dezastrelor |
| Accusative | dezastru | dezastre |
| Vocative | dezastrule | dezastrelor |
Word family
dezastruosdisastrous (masculine)
dezastruoasădisastrous (feminine)
astrustar (literary or archaic)
astrologastrologer
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "dezastru" from French "désastre" in the 19th century, part of a wave of French loanwords that modernized Romanian vocabulary. The French word goes back to Italian "disastro", built from the prefix "dis-" (bad, ill) and "astro" (star), from Latin "astrum". The image behind the word is an unlucky star: an event blamed on bad astrological influence.
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