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frontieră

border (of a country) /fronˈtjeră/

noun#5229 most common

Also: frontier, boundary line

Example sentences

Trecem frontiera mâine.
We cross the border tomorrow.
România are o frontieră cu Ucraina.
Romania has a border with Ukraine.
Poliția de frontieră a verificat pașapoartele noastre.
The border police checked our passports.
Frontiera dintre cele două țări a fost închisă din cauza pandemiei.
The border between the two countries was closed because of the pandemic.
Guvernul a anunțat consolidarea controalelor la frontiera de est a țării.
The government announced tighter controls at the country's eastern border.
Dezbaterile privind redefinirea frontierelor politice ale Europei continuă să genereze tensiuni diplomatice.
Debates over redrawing Europe's political borders keep generating diplomatic tension.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativefrontierăfrontiere
Genitivefrontiereifrontierelor
Accusativefrontierăfrontiere
Vocativefrontierofrontiere

Word family

frontalierrelating to a border area, cross-border
transfrontaliercross-border, transboundary
granițăborder (more everyday synonym)
frontalfrontal, head-on

Etymology

Frontieră entered Romanian from French frontière, a formal, administrative term for a state border. French frontière itself derives from front (front, forehead), tracing back to Latin frons, frontis. The word arrived in Romanian as part of the 19th-century wave of French borrowings that gave the language much of its modern political and administrative vocabulary.

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