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gumă
eraser (rubber) /ˈɡu.mə/
noun#4310 most common
Also: gum (chewing gum, usually as 'gumă de mestecat'), rubber (the material)
Example sentences
Am o gumă în penar.
I have an eraser in my pencil case.
Mesteci o gumă?
Are you chewing gum?
Am șters greșeala cu guma.
I erased the mistake with the eraser.
Copilul a pierdut guma de mestecat pe stradă.
The child lost the chewing gum on the street.
Guma aceea s-a uzat complet și nu mai șterge bine.
That eraser has worn out completely and no longer erases well.
Fabrica produce gume de diferite forme și culori pentru papetărie.
The factory makes erasers of different shapes and colors for stationery.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | gumă / guma | gume / gumele |
| Genitive | gume / gumei | gume / gumelor |
| Accusative | gumă / guma | gume / gumele |
| Vocative | gumo | gumelor |
Word family
gumă de mestecatchewing gum
gumatgummed, self-adhesive (e.g. gummed tape)
gumosgummy, rubbery in texture
gumajgumming (technical term in printing/bookbinding)
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "gumă" from French "gomme", which goes back to Latin "gummi". Latin took the word from Greek "kommi", itself a loan from Egyptian for a plant resin. The word entered Romanian in the modern era through French, alongside many other Romance vocabulary borrowings.
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