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inteligent

intelligent /in.te.li.ˈdʒent/

adjective#1166 most common

Also: smart, clever

Example sentences

El este inteligent.
He is intelligent.
Câinele meu este foarte inteligent.
My dog is very intelligent.
Este o elevă inteligentă, dar leneșă.
She is an intelligent student, but lazy.
Soluția ei a fost surprinzător de inteligentă.
Her solution was surprisingly intelligent.
Deși pare inteligent, deciziile lui recente au fost dezastruoase.
Although he seems intelligent, his recent decisions have been disastrous.
Sistemele considerate inteligente artificial ridică întrebări etice profunde.
Systems considered artificially intelligent raise profound ethical questions.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeinteligentinteligenți
Genitiveinteligentinteligenți
Accusativeinteligentinteligenți
Vocativeinteligentinteligenți

Word family

inteligențăintelligence
inteligentăintelligent (feminine form)
neinteligentunintelligent
inteligibilintelligible, understandable

Etymology

Romanian borrowed "inteligent" from French "intelligent" in the nineteenth century, during the period when Romanian consciously rebuilt its vocabulary on Romance models. The French word descends from Latin "intelligentem," the present participle of "intelligere," meaning to understand or perceive. That verb combines "inter" (between) with "legere" (to gather, choose, or read), so the core sense is discerning one thing from another.

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