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grădină
garden /ɡrəˈdinə/
noun#1915 most common
Also: yard (cultivated plot), orchard/vegetable patch (in rural use)
Example sentences
Eu am o grădină.
I have a garden.
Copiii se joacă în grădină.
The children are playing in the garden.
Bunica mea cultivă legume în grădina din spatele casei.
My grandmother grows vegetables in the garden behind the house.
Am petrecut ore întregi plivind buruienile din grădina noastră.
We spent hours weeding our garden.
Grădina botanică din oraș adăpostește sute de specii rare de plante.
The city's botanical garden houses hundreds of rare plant species.
Dacă n-ar fi fost seceta prelungită din vara aceasta, grădinile din întreaga regiune ar fi rodit din belșug.
Had it not been for this summer's prolonged drought, the gardens across the region would have yielded abundantly.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | grădină / grădina | grădini / grădinile |
| Genitive | grădini / grădinii | grădini / grădinilor |
| Accusative | grădină / grădina | grădini / grădinile |
| Vocative | grădino | grădinilor |
Word family
grădinargardener (male)
grădinăreasăgardener (female)
grădinăritgardening (the activity)
grădinițăkindergarten, nursery school
grădinăriehorticulture business, garden center
Etymology
Grădină entered Romanian from Slavic, most likely Old Church Slavonic or an early South Slavic form related to gradъ, meaning a fortified or enclosed place. The word kept its Slavic shape almost intact, unlike much of the Latin-based Romanian vocabulary. The underlying sense, an enclosed plot of land, is what carried over into the modern meaning of garden.
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