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masină
car /maˈʃinə/
noun#601 most common
Also: machine, engine, appliance (in compounds like "mașină de spălat")
Example sentences
Eu am o mașină roșie.
I have a red car.
Mașina mea este parcată în fața casei.
My car is parked in front of the house.
Trebuie să duc mașina la service săptămâna viitoare.
I need to take the car to the shop next week.
Mașina de spălat s-a stricat din nou.
The washing machine broke again.
Guvernul a impus noi taxe pentru mașinile poluante.
The government imposed new taxes on polluting cars.
Deși mașina era veche, mecanicul a reușit s-o repare fără să cumpere piese noi.
Although the car was old, the mechanic managed to repair it without buying new parts.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mașina | mașinile |
| Genitive | mașinii | mașinilor |
| Accusative | mașina | mașinile |
| Vocative | mașino | mașinilor |
Word family
mașinăriemachinery, apparatus
mașinistmachine operator, machinist
mașinuțălittle car, toy car
automobilautomobile (more formal synonym)
Etymology
Mașină entered Romanian from French "machine" in the 19th century, during a period when Romanian borrowed heavily from French and Italian to modernize its vocabulary. The French word itself descends from Latin "machina", which came from Greek "μηχανή" (mēkhanē), meaning device or contrivance. The Romanian sense narrowed over time so that in everyday speech it usually means "car" specifically, while the older, broader sense of "machine" survives in compounds.
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