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meci
match (sports game) /ˈmetʃʲ/
noun#1017 most common
Also: game, fixture
Example sentences
Ei joacă un meci de fotbal.
They are playing a football match.
Meciul începe la ora șapte.
The match starts at seven o'clock.
Am urmărit meciul la televizor aseară.
I watched the match on TV last night.
Echipa noastră a câștigat meciul decisiv din finală.
Our team won the decisive match in the final.
Suporterii au fost dezamăgiți de rezultatul meciurilor din acest sezon.
The fans were disappointed by the results of the matches this season.
Dacă am fi analizat mai atent tactica adversarilor înainte de meci, am fi putut evita înfrângerea.
If we had analyzed the opponents' tactics more carefully before the match, we could have avoided the defeat.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | meci / meciul | meciuri / meciurile |
| Genitive | meci / meciului | meciuri / meciurilor |
| Accusative | meci / meciul | meciuri / meciurile |
| Vocative | meciule | meciurilor |
Word family
meciurimatches (plural)
meci-returreturn leg (second match of a two-leg tie)
meci amicalfriendly match
meci decisivdecisive match, decider
Etymology
Meci is a direct borrowing of the English word match, spelled to match Romanian pronunciation. It entered Romanian in the early twentieth century alongside a wave of English sports vocabulary, including fotbal and gol, as organized football spread across Europe. Because it arrived as a whole borrowed word rather than through inherited Latin stock, it has no deeper Indo-European root within Romanian.
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