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grav
serious, grave (severe) /ɡrav/
adjective#1145 most common
Also: severe, critical, solemn
Example sentences
Rana este gravă.
The wound is serious.
El a avut un accident grav.
He had a serious accident.
Situația devine tot mai gravă.
The situation is becoming more and more serious.
Doi oameni au fost grav răniți în accident.
Two people were seriously injured in the accident.
Medicii au spus că starea pacientului este gravă, dar stabilă.
Doctors said the patient's condition is serious but stable.
Erorile grave din sistemul de securitate au dus la o breșă majoră de date.
Serious errors in the security system led to a major data breach.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | grav (m) / gravă (f) | gravi (m) / grave (f) |
| Genitive | grav (m) / grave (f) | gravi (m) / grave (f) |
| Accusative | grav (m) / gravă (f) | gravi (m) / grave (f) |
| Vocative | — | — |
Word family
a agravato aggravate, make worse
gravitategravity
gravitațiegravitation
gravitasgravitas, dignified seriousness (borrowed directly from Latin)
Etymology
Grav comes from Latin gravis, meaning heavy or weighty. The physical sense of heaviness faded in Romanian, leaving only the figurative sense of seriousness or severity. English grave (as in a grave error) descends from the same Latin word by a different route, through Old French.
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