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mancare
food /mɨnˈkare/
noun#3115 most common
Also: dish, meal, cooking
Example sentences
Eu vreau mâncare.
I want food.
Mâncarea este foarte bună.
The food is very good.
Am gătit mâncare pentru toată familia.
I cooked food for the whole family.
Mâncarea tradițională românească este bogată în arome.
Traditional Romanian food is rich in flavors.
Restaurantul acesta servește mâncăruri delicioase din bucătăria mediteraneană.
This restaurant serves delicious dishes from Mediterranean cuisine.
Calitatea mâncării pe care o consumăm zilnic influențează semnificativ starea noastră de sănătate pe termen lung.
The quality of the food we eat daily significantly affects our long-term health.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mâncare | mâncăruri |
| Genitive | mâncări | mâncăruri |
| Accusative | mâncare | mâncăruri |
| Vocative | mâncare | mâncăruri |
Word family
a mâncato eat
mâncateaten
mâncătoreater
mâncărimeitch, itching
nemâncarefasting, not eating
Etymology
Mâncare is the noun built from the verb a mânca, to eat. That verb comes from Latin manducare, meaning to chew, a colloquial verb that pushed out the classical Latin edere in most of the Romance-speaking world. Romanian formed the noun the same way it forms many abstract nouns: by turning the long infinitive of the verb into a noun.
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