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meserie
trade, craft, occupation /meseˈri.e/
noun#2090 most common
Also: profession, line of work, (colloquial, as exclamation) nice work! / cool!
Example sentences
Tatăl meu are o meserie interesantă.
My father has an interesting trade.
Ce meserie ai?
What is your profession?
Ea a învățat meseria de croitoreasă de la mama ei.
She learned the trade of seamstress from her mother.
Multe meserii tradiționale dispar din cauza tehnologiei.
Many traditional trades are disappearing because of technology.
Meseria de fierar necesită ani de ucenicie înainte de a fi stăpânită pe deplin.
The trade of blacksmith requires years of apprenticeship before it is fully mastered.
Ai reparat mașina fără ajutor? Meserie!
You fixed the car without any help? Nice work!
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | meserie | meserii |
| Genitive | meserii | meseriilor |
| Accusative | meserie | meserii |
| Vocative | meserie | meserii |
Word family
meseriașcraftsman, skilled tradesman
meseriașăcraftswoman, skilled tradeswoman
meseriașskilled, expert, top-notch
școală de meseriivocational school
Etymology
Meserie entered Romanian in the eighteenth century, during the Phanariote period, when Greek was the language of administration and commerce in the Romanian principalities. It comes from Greek mesiteia, a term tied to brokerage and business dealings, and it settled into Romanian with the broader sense of a trade or occupation. It belongs to a wave of Greek loanwords from that era that describe practical, everyday activities rather than abstract ideas.
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