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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

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativefumfumuri
Genitivefumuluifumurilor
Accusativefumfumuri
Vocativefumulefumurilor

Word family

a fumato smoke
fumătorsmoker
afumatsmoked, cured
fumuriismoke-colored, hazy grey
parfumperfume

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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