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matusă
aunt /məˈtuʃə/
noun#5012 most common
Also: auntie
Example sentences
Aceasta este mătușa mea.
This is my aunt.
Mătușa mea locuiește la Cluj.
My aunt lives in Cluj.
Mâine mergem la mătușa Maria.
Tomorrow we are going to Aunt Maria's.
Mătușile mele vin în vizită de sărbători.
My aunts come to visit during the holidays.
I-am scris mătușii o scrisoare lungă.
I wrote my aunt a long letter.
Dacă n-ar fi fost mătușa mea, n-aș fi terminat niciodată facultatea.
If it had not been for my aunt, I would never have finished university.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mătușă | mătuși |
| Genitive | mătușii | mătușilor |
| Accusative | mătușă | mătuși |
| Vocative | mătușă / mătușico | mătușilor |
Word family
mătușăaunt
mătușicăauntie, dear aunt (diminutive)
unchiuncle (paired kinship term, different root)nepoatăniece (the reciprocal term for an aunt's sibling's child)Etymology
Mătușă comes from Latin matertera, the classical word for a mother's sister. Romanian kept this inherited kinship term while most other Romance languages replaced it with new coinages, such as French tante or Italian zia. The word still carries the old Latin mater, meaning mother, buried inside it.
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