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fum
smoke /fum/
noun#2209 most common
Also: fumes, airs (in the idiom "a-și da fumuri")
Example sentences
Acolo e fum.
There is smoke there.
Fumul se ridică din horn.
The smoke rises from the chimney.
Am simțit miros de fum în bucătărie.
I smelled smoke in the kitchen.
Fumul de la mașina aceea m-a deranjat.
The smoke from that car bothered me.
Pompierii au intrat în clădirea plină de fum pentru a salva oamenii.
The firefighters went into the building full of smoke to save the people.
Nu iese fum fără foc, așa că bănuiala lor avea un temei.
There's no smoke without fire, so their suspicion had some basis.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fum | fumuri |
| Genitive | fumului | fumurilor |
| Accusative | fum | fumuri |
| Vocative | fumule | fumurilor |
Word family
Etymology
Fum comes from Latin fumus, meaning smoke. The word has stayed close to its Latin root in form and meaning across the Romance languages. Romanian kept it as a basic, everyday noun rather than routing it through a borrowed synonym.
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