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ghinion
bad luck /ɡi.niˈon/
noun#2789 most common
Also: misfortune, hard luck, tough break
Example sentences
Am avut ghinion azi.
I had bad luck today.
Ce ghinion!
What bad luck!
A avut ghinionul să piardă trenul.
He had the bad luck to miss the train.
Din păcate, ghinionul m-a urmărit toată săptămâna.
Unfortunately, bad luck followed me all week.
Jucătorii au dat vina pe ghinion pentru înfrângere.
The players blamed bad luck for the defeat.
Șirul de ghinioane prin care a trecut echipa în acest sezon a demoralizat suporterii.
The string of misfortunes the team went through this season demoralized the fans.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ghinion | ghinioane |
| Genitive | ghinionului | ghinioanelor |
| Accusative | ghinion | ghinioane |
| Vocative | ghinionule | ghinioanelor |
Word family
Etymology
Ghinion entered Romanian in the nineteenth century from French guignon, meaning bad luck. This was part of a wider wave of French borrowings that reshaped Romanian vocabulary during that period, especially in everyday and social registers. The word kept its French sense intact and simply took a Romanian neuter noun ending.
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