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flacără
flame /ˈfla.kə.rə/
noun#2555 most common
Also: blaze, fire (of a burner or candle)
Example sentences
Flacăra este roșie și galbenă.
The flame is red and yellow.
Copilul se uită la flacăra lumânării.
The child looks at the candle's flame.
Flacăra olimpică ajunge mâine în oraș.
The Olympic flame arrives in the city tomorrow.
Pompierii au reușit să stingă flăcările care cuprinseseră acoperișul.
The firefighters managed to put out the flames that had engulfed the roof.
Intensitatea flăcării depinde de cantitatea de oxigen din aer.
The intensity of the flame depends on the amount of oxygen in the air.
Poetul a asemuit iubirea cu o flacără mistuitoare, capabilă deopotrivă să lumineze și să nimicească.
The poet likened love to a consuming flame, capable both of illuminating and destroying.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | flacără | flăcări |
| Genitive | flăcări | flăcărilor |
| Accusative | flacără | flăcări |
| Vocative | flacără | flăcărilor |
Word family
înflăcărato inflame, to fire up someone's enthusiasm
înflăcăratfiery, ardent, fervent
înflăcărareardor, fervor, enthusiasm
flăcăruielittle flame, small flicker of fire
Etymology
Flacără descends from Latin flagra, a plural form built on the verb flagrare, meaning to blaze or burn. Like several other Latin neuter plurals, it was reinterpreted in Romanian as a feminine singular noun, a common shift in the language's development from Latin. The word has kept its core meaning of an open, burning flame since then.
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