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glumă
joke /ˈɡlu.mə/
noun#766 most common
Also: jest, prank
Example sentences
Aceasta este o glumă bună.
This is a good joke.
Îmi place să spun o glumă la petreceri.
I like to tell a joke at parties.
A fost doar o glumă, nu m-am supărat.
It was just a joke, I wasn't upset.
Colegii mei au râs de gluma pe care am spus-o la masă.
My colleagues laughed at the joke I told at the table.
Gluma lui, deși nevinovată, a stârnit un val de controverse pe rețelele sociale.
His joke, though innocent, sparked a wave of controversy on social media.
Ceea ce părea la început o simplă glumă s-a transformat treptat într-o neînțelegere greu de reparat între cei doi prieteni.
What at first seemed like a simple joke gradually turned into a misunderstanding hard to repair between the two friends.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | glumă | glume |
| Genitive | glumei | glumelor |
| Accusative | glumă | glume |
| Vocative | glumă | glume |
Word family
a glumito joke, to jest
glumețjocular, given to joking
glumindjoking (while joking)
de glumăas a joke, not seriously (set phrase)
Etymology
Glumă entered Romanian from Slavic, most likely Old Church Slavonic or Bulgarian glumŭ, meaning mockery or play. The same Slavic root gave verbs meaning to jest or to perform, which is why South Slavic languages use related forms for acting and theater. Romanian narrowed the sense to a spoken joke or prank.
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