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grozav
great, terrific, awesome /ɡroˈzav/
adjective#383 most common
Also: wonderful, tremendous, terribly (as an intensifying adverb, e.g. "grozav de bun")
Example sentences
Filmul a fost grozav.
The movie was great.
Am o mașină grozavă.
I have a great car.
Prietenii mei sunt oameni grozavi.
My friends are great people.
Ideea ta e grozavă, dar cred că mai avem nevoie de timp ca s-o punem în practică.
Your idea is great, but I think we still need time to put it into practice.
Deși vremea era grozav de rea, am plecat totuși la drumeție.
Even though the weather was terribly bad, we went hiking anyway.
Priveliștea grozavă de pe creastă m-a făcut să înțeleg de ce localnicii spun că muntele acesta e sacru.
The tremendous view from the ridge made me understand why the locals say this mountain is sacred.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | grozav / grozavă | grozavi / grozave |
| Genitive | grozav / grozave | grozavi / grozave |
| Accusative | grozav / grozavă | grozavi / grozave |
| Vocative | grozavule / grozavo | grozavilor / grozavelor |
Word family
groazădread, horrorgroaznicterrible, awful
a îngrozito horrify
grozăvieatrocity, horror; colloquially, an amazing thing
Etymology
Grozav comes from the Romanian noun groază, meaning dread or horror, which entered Romanian from a Slavic source (compare Old Slavic groza, terror). The adjectival suffix -av was added to form grozav, originally meaning dreadful or fearsome, something that inspires terror. Over the twentieth century, colloquial usage flipped the word's charge from fear to admiration, so that today it mostly means great or terrific, while the base noun groază and the adjective groaznic kept the older negative sense.
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