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gaz
gas /ɡaz/
noun#1682 most common
Also: kerosene (dated/regional), throttle, as in the phrase "a da gaz" (to step on the gas)
Example sentences
Aragazul merge cu gaz.
The stove runs on gas.
Simt un miros de gaz în bucătărie.
I smell gas in the kitchen.
Firma a oprit gazul din cauza unei avarii la conductă.
The company shut off the gas because of a pipe malfunction.
Prețul gazelor naturale a crescut mult iarna aceasta.
The price of natural gas has risen a lot this winter.
Șoferul a dat gaz ca să prindă trenul.
The driver stepped on the gas to catch the train.
Dependența economiei europene de gazul rusesc a devenit o problemă geopolitică majoră.
The European economy's dependence on Russian gas has become a major geopolitical problem.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | gaz | gaze |
| Genitive | gazului | gazelor |
| Accusative | gaz | gaze |
| Vocative | gaz | gaze |
Word family
gazos, gazoasăgaseous, fizzy (as in apă gazoasă, sparkling water)
gazeificato gasify
degazato degas, to outgas
gazoductgas pipeline
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "gaz" directly from French "gaz" in the 19th century, during the period when Romanian vocabulary was heavily reshaped by French loanwords. French "gaz" itself is a scientific coinage from the 1600s, invented by the chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont, likely inspired by the Greek word "khaos" (chaos, void). It is not an inherited word, so it has no Proto-Indo-European root. In older Romanian usage it also came to mean kerosene, the fuel burned in oil lamps.
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