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mașină
car /maˈʃinə/
noun#200 most common
Also: machine, automobile
Example sentences
Am o mașină roșie.
I have a red car.
Mama conduce mașina la muncă.
Mom drives the car to work.
Am parcat mașina în fața casei.
I parked the car in front of the house.
Mașina lui s-a stricat pe autostradă.
His car broke down on the highway.
Deși mașina era veche, motorul funcționa impecabil.
Although the car was old, the engine ran flawlessly.
Mașinile electrice au schimbat radical modul în care percepem mobilitatea urbană.
Electric cars have radically changed the way we perceive urban mobility.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mașină | mașini |
| Genitive | mașinii | mașinilor |
| Accusative | mașină | mașini |
| Vocative | mașină | mașinilor |
Word family
mașinăriemachinery, factory
mașinuțătoy car, little car
mașinistmachine operator
mecanicmechanic; mechanicalEtymology
Mașină entered Romanian from French machine in the 19th century, during the wave of Romance vocabulary that reshaped modern Romanian. French machine descends from Latin machina, which itself came from Greek mēkhanē, meaning device or contrivance. The word first meant any mechanical device in Romanian and only later narrowed, in everyday speech, to mean specifically a car.
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