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geantă
bag /ˈdʒe̯antə/
noun#1399 most common
Also: handbag, purse, suitcase
Example sentences
Am o geantă neagră.
I have a black bag.
Geanta mea este pe masă.
My bag is on the table.
Am uitat geanta în tren.
I forgot my bag on the train.
Ea și-a cumpărat o geantă nouă de la magazinul din centru.
She bought herself a new bag from the shop downtown.
Deși geanta era grea, a cărat-o toată ziua fără să se plângă.
Although the bag was heavy, she carried it all day without complaining.
Genților de piele li se atribuie, pe nedrept, o valoare simbolică ce depășește cu mult utilitatea lor practică.
Leather bags are, unfairly, credited with a symbolic value that far exceeds their practical usefulness.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | geantă | genți |
| Genitive | genți | genților |
| Accusative | geantă | genți |
| Vocative | geanto | genților |
Word family
Etymology
Romanian borrowed geantă from Turkish çanta, meaning bag. The loan entered during the long period of Ottoman political and commercial contact with the Romanian lands, a period that left many everyday Turkish words in the language. Romanian speakers reshaped the word with the feminine ending -ă, which is standard for native feminine nouns. The origin of the Turkish word itself is debated, and some scholars trace it further back to Persian.
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