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durere
pain /duˈre.re/
noun#626 most common
Also: ache, sorrow, grief
Example sentences
Am o durere de cap.
I have a headache.
Ea simte o durere în picior.
She feels a pain in her leg.
Durerea a dispărut după ce am luat medicamentul.
The pain went away after I took the medicine.
Nu pot să-mi ascund durerea pe care o simt de la despărțire.
I cannot hide the pain I feel from the breakup.
Durerile cronice îi afectează calitatea vieții de ani de zile.
Chronic pains have affected his quality of life for years.
Amploarea durerii pe care o resimțeau supraviețuitorii tragediei era greu de exprimat în cuvinte.
The scale of the pain the survivors of the tragedy felt was hard to put into words.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | durere | dureri |
| Genitive | durerii | durerilor |
| Accusative | durere | dureri |
| Vocative | durere | dureri |
Word family
a dureato hurt, to ache
durerospainfulîndureratgrief-stricken, sorrowful
a îndurerato grieve, to sadden
nedurerospainless
Etymology
Durere descends from Latin dolere, meaning to feel pain or to grieve. The same Latin verb gave Romanian its verb a durea, to hurt, and durere was formed by adding the noun-forming suffix -re to that verb stem. The change from Latin dolere to Romanian durere follows a regular Romanian sound shift in which an l between vowels became r, the same process seen in soare (sun) from Latin sol.
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