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luptă
fight /ˈlup.tə/
noun#394 most common
Also: struggle, battle, combat
Example sentences
Lupta este grea.
The fight is hard.
El participă la o luptă.
He takes part in a fight.
Lupta pentru libertate a fost lungă.
The fight for freedom was long.
Ea a câștigat lupta împotriva bolii.
She won the fight against the illness.
Lupta lor pentru drepturi civile a schimbat istoria.
Their fight for civil rights changed history.
În ciuda eforturilor luptei sale neîncetate, rezultatul a rămas incert.
Despite the efforts of his relentless fight, the outcome remained uncertain.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | luptă | lupte |
| Genitive | luptei | luptelor |
| Accusative | luptă | lupte |
| Vocative | luptă | lupte |
Word family
a luptato fight, to struggle
luptătorfighter, combatant (masc.)luptătoarefighter, combative (fem.)
de luptăcombat, fighting (adjectival), as in avion de luptă, fighter plane
Etymology
Luptă comes from Latin lucta, meaning a wrestling match or struggle, tied to the verb luctari, to wrestle. Romanian kept this core Latin word through the everyday spoken Latin of the region. The same Latin root produced close relatives in the other Romance languages.
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