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grămadă
heap, pile /ɡrəˈmadə/
noun#1078 most common
Also: mass, crowd, a lot (of)
Example sentences
Am o grămadă de mere.
I have a pile of apples.
Copiii au făcut o grămadă de nisip pe plajă.
The children made a pile of sand on the beach.
Pune cărțile grămadă pe masă, te rog.
Put the books in a pile on the table, please.
În curte erau mai multe grămezi de frunze uscate.
In the yard there were several piles of dry leaves.
Am o grămadă de treabă azi și nu știu de unde să încep.
I have a ton of work today and I don't know where to start.
Grămada de gunoi din spatele blocului tot creștea, spre indignarea vecinilor.
The pile of garbage behind the building kept growing, to the neighbors' indignation.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | grămadă | grămezi |
| Genitive | grămezii | grămezilor |
| Accusative | grămadă | grămezi |
| Vocative | grămado | grămezilor |
Word family
grămădito pile up, to heap
îngrămădito crowd together, to cram
îngrămădirecrowding, piling up
grămăjoarăsmall pile, little heap
Etymology
Grămadă entered Romanian from a South Slavic source, related to Old Church Slavonic and Bulgarian words for a heap or pile of stones. Slavic settlement and long contact in the Balkans left Romanian with many such everyday nouns for shape and quantity. The word kept its concrete sense, a stacked mass of things, and later extended to mean a large quantity of anything, including work or trouble.
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