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flotă
fleet /ˈflo.tə/
noun#2552 most common
Also: navy, fleet of vehicles
Example sentences
Flota are multe nave.
The fleet has many ships.
România are o flotă mică de pescuit.
Romania has a small fishing fleet.
Flota comercială a țării s-a modernizat anul trecut.
The country's commercial fleet was modernized last year.
Guvernul a decis să mărească flota de taxiuri din capitală.
The government decided to expand the taxi fleet in the capital.
Flota militară a fost desfășurată în largul mării pentru exerciții comune.
The military fleet was deployed offshore for joint exercises.
Amiralul a coordonat manevrele întregii flote cu o precizie remarcabilă.
The admiral coordinated the maneuvers of the entire fleet with remarkable precision.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | flotă | flote |
| Genitive | flote | flote |
| Accusative | flotă | flote |
| Vocative | flotă | flote |
Word family
flotăfleet
flotilăflotilla, small fleet
flotantfloating, fluctuating (e.g. exchange rate)
flotabilitatebuoyancy
a flotato float (technical/financial usage)
Etymology
Flotă entered Romanian in the nineteenth century from French flotte, part of a wave of French borrowings that reshaped Romanian vocabulary during that era. French flotte comes from the Old French verb floter, meaning to float, which itself derives from a Germanic source. The deeper root is the Proto-Indo-European base for flowing or floating, which also underlies the English words fleet and float.
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