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farsă
prank /ˈfar.sə/
noun#5221 most common
Also: practical joke, trick, farce (theatrical genre)
Example sentences
Este doar o farsă.
It's just a prank.
Prietenii mei mi-au jucat o farsă.
My friends played a prank on me.
Nu știam dacă e o farsă sau adevărul.
I didn't know whether it was a prank or the truth.
Farsa a fost atât de bine pregătită încât nimeni nu și-a dat seama.
The prank was so well prepared that no one noticed.
Colegii i-au întins o farsă de ziua lui, ascunzându-i toate lucrurile din birou.
His colleagues pulled a prank on him for his birthday, hiding everything from his office.
Farsele copilărești de altădată au lăsat loc unor glume mult mai elaborate, aproape teatrale în complexitatea lor.
The childish pranks of the past have given way to jokes that are far more elaborate, almost theatrical in their complexity.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | farsă | farse |
| Genitive | farse | farselor |
| Accusative | farsă | farse |
| Vocative | farso | farselor |
Word family
farsorprankster, joker (masc.)
farsoareprankster, joker (fem.)
a juca o farsăto play a prank (on someone)
a întinde o farsăto pull a prank (on someone)
Etymology
Farsă entered Romanian from French farce in the 19th century, part of a wave of French loanwords that reshaped Romanian vocabulary. The French word itself goes back to Latin farcire, meaning to stuff. Medieval theater used the term for comic interludes stuffed into serious religious plays, and the sense later broadened from a stage genre to any deceptive joke played on someone.
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