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groapă
pit (a hole in the ground) /ˈɡro̯apə/
noun#2942 most common
Also: hole, grave, pothole
Example sentences
În curte este o groapă.
There is a pit in the yard.
Copilul a căzut în groapă.
The child fell into the pit.
Muncitorii au săpat o groapă adâncă pentru fundație.
The workers dug a deep pit for the foundation.
Drumul era plin de gropi după iarnă.
The road was full of potholes after winter.
Groapa de gunoi din apropierea orașului poluează apa subterană.
The landfill near the city pollutes the groundwater.
Arheologii au descoperit gropile funerare vechi de secole în timpul săpăturilor.
Archaeologists discovered centuries-old burial pits during the excavations.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | groapă | gropi |
| Genitive | gropii | gropilor |
| Accusative | groapă | gropi |
| Vocative | groapo | gropilor |
Word family
gropargravedigger
îngropato burydezgropato dig up, unearth
gropițăsmall pit, dimple
groapă comunămass grave
Etymology
The origin of groapă is not settled. Most Romanian dictionaries treat it as a word from the pre-Roman substrate of the region, the language spoken before Latin arrived. Its closest known relative is Albanian, which points to a shared source older than Latin rather than a Latin root.
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