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femeie
woman /feˈmeje/
noun#154 most common
Also: wife (dated/regional), female person
Example sentences
Ea este o femeie frumoasă.
She is a beautiful woman.
Femeia aceea este mama mea.
That woman is my mother.
Am întâlnit o femeie interesantă la petrecere.
I met an interesting woman at the party.
Multe femei din România lucrează în străinătate.
Many women from Romania work abroad.
Drepturile femeilor au evoluat mult în ultimul secol.
Women's rights have evolved a lot over the last century.
Condiția femeii în societatea tradițională a fost adesea marcată de inegalitate.
The condition of women in traditional society was often marked by inequality.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | femeie | femei |
| Genitive | femeii | femeilor |
| Accusative | femeie | femei |
| Vocative | femeie | femeilor |
Word family
femeiescwomanly, of/pertaining to women
femeiușcălittle woman (diminutive, often pejorative)
familiefamily (later, separate borrowing from the same Latin root)Etymology
Femeie comes from Latin familia, meaning household or the people under one roof. This is unusual: most Romance languages built their word for woman on Latin femina (French femme, Spanish/Italian femmina), but Romanian instead let familia drift in meaning from household to the woman who ran it, and finally to woman in general. The word familie was later borrowed again into Romanian from French, so the two words now sit side by side despite sharing one ancestor.
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