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litru

liter /ˈli.tru/

noun#5650 most common

Example sentences

Cumpăr un litru de lapte.
I buy a liter of milk.
Vreau doi litri de apă minerală.
I want two liters of mineral water.
Mașina mea consumă șapte litri la sută de kilometri.
My car uses seven liters per hundred kilometers.
Rezervorul de benzină are o capacitate de cincizeci de litri.
The gas tank has a capacity of fifty liters.
Prețul litrului de benzină a crescut din nou luna trecută.
The price per liter of gasoline rose again last month.
Fermierul a livrat aproape trei mii de litri de lapte fabricii într-o singură săptămână.
The farmer delivered almost three thousand liters of milk to the factory in a single week.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativelitrullitrii
Genitivelitruluilitrilor
Accusativelitrullitrii
Vocativelitrulelitrilor

Word family

litrajvolume/capacity expressed in liters (e.g. of an engine or container)
mililitrumilliliter
decilitrudeciliter
hectolitruhectoliter

Etymology

Litru is a modern borrowing from French litre, which entered French from the post-classical Greek litra, a unit of weight. The word spread across Europe with the metric system in the 19th century. Romanian took it directly from French, as it did with many technical and scientific terms during its period of linguistic modernization.

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