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di
of/from /ˈdi/
particle#3852 most common
Also: from, by
Example sentences
Vin di-acasă.
I'm coming from home.
El îi di la Iași.
He is from Iași.
Mama a venit di la piață cu multe legume.
Mom came back from the market with lots of vegetables.
Zi di zi, treaba la câmp era tot mai grea.
Day by day, the fieldwork got harder.
Copiii satului ascultau povești spuse di bunici, seara, lângă foc.
The village children listened to stories told by their grandparents, in the evening, by the fire.
Ș-apoi, cum îs eu unul di prin părțile Humuleștilor, știu multe povești di-ale babei și moșneagului.
And since I'm someone from around the Humulești area, I know many of the old woman's and old man's tales.
Word family
destandard Romanian form of the same prepositiondintrefrom among, betweendinsprefrom the direction ofdespreabout, concerning
Etymology
Di continues the Latin preposition de through normal Romanian sound change. In the Moldavian dialect region, an unstressed final -e commonly raises to -i, so de becomes di in everyday speech. The form carries the same meaning and grammar as standard de. It is best known from literature that renders Moldavian speech, most famously the prose of Ion Creangă.
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