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fetită
little girl /feˈtit͡sə/
noun#4133 most common
Also: girlie, daughter (affectionate), young girl
Example sentences
Fetița se joacă în parc.
The little girl is playing in the park.
Am o fetiță de trei ani.
I have a three-year-old little girl.
Fetița vecinilor cântă foarte frumos.
The neighbors' little girl sings very beautifully.
Când era fetiță, își petrecea verile la bunici.
When she was a little girl, she spent her summers at her grandparents'.
Fetițelor din clasa întâi li s-au dat cărți colorate.
The little girls in first grade were given colored books.
Nostalgia fetiței care alerga desculță prin iarbă nu l-a părăsit niciodată.
The nostalgia for the little girl who used to run barefoot through the grass never left him.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fetiță | fetițe |
| Genitive | fetiței | fetițelor |
| Accusative | fetiță | fetițe |
| Vocative | fetițo | fetițelor |
Word family
Etymology
Fetiță is built from fată, the ordinary Romanian word for girl, plus the diminutive suffix -iță. The root vowel shifts from a to e before the suffix, a regular sound change found in other Romanian diminutives. The origin of fată itself is disputed; most dictionaries call it a native word of the region rather than one inherited straight from Latin, so no secure Proto-Indo-European root can be given.
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