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fasole
beans /faˈso.le/
noun#3955 most common
Also: bean plant
Example sentences
Eu mănânc fasole.
I eat beans.
Mama gătește fasole cu cârnați.
Mom cooks beans with sausages.
Fasolea verde este sănătoasă.
Green beans are healthy.
Am cumpărat un kilogram de fasole boabe de la piață.
I bought a kilogram of dried beans at the market.
Bunica pune fasolea la înmuiat de cu seară, ca să fiarbă mai repede a doua zi.
Grandma puts the beans to soak the night before, so they cook faster the next day.
Deși prețul fasolei a crescut considerabil anul acesta din cauza secetei, gospodinele continuă să o cumpere pentru sarmalele de post.
Although the price of beans has risen considerably this year because of the drought, housewives keep buying it for Lenten stuffed cabbage rolls.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fasole | fasole |
| Genitive | fasolei | fasolelor |
| Accusative | fasole | fasole |
| Vocative | fasole | fasole |
Word family
fasolicăsmall bean, or a simple bean dish (diminutive)
fasole verdegreen beans
fasole bătutămashed bean spread, a Romanian fasting dish
păstaie de fasolebean pod
Etymology
Fasole entered Romanian through the Balkan trade and food vocabulary shared with neighboring languages, most directly from South Slavic forms such as Bulgarian fasul. That word in turn traces back through Greek and Turkish contact to the Latin phaseolus, the term for the bean plant. The chain shows how a single Mediterranean crop name spread across several unrelated language families as the bean itself spread as a food.
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