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meu

my / mine /ˈmew/

adjective#26 most common

Also: mine (belonging to me)

Example sentences

Acesta este câinele meu.
This is my dog.
Numele meu este Ana.
My name is Ana.
Prietenul meu locuiește în Cluj.
My friend lives in Cluj.
Casa mea e aproape de parc, dar biroul meu e departe.
My house is near the park, but my office is far away.
Fratele meu mai mare a plecat la facultate anul trecut.
My older brother left for college last year.
Deși prietenii mei m-au sfătuit să renunț, am dus proiectul meu până la capăt.
Although my friends advised me to give up, I carried my project through to the end.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativemeumei
Genitiveal meuai mei
Accusativemeumei
Vocativemeumei

Word family

meamy, mine (feminine singular)
meimy, mine (masculine plural)
melemy, mine (feminine plural)
al meumine (standalone, masculine)
euI (the pronoun meu is built on the same person)

Etymology

Meu comes from the Latin possessive adjective meus, mea, meum, meaning "my, mine." Romanian kept the full four-form gender and number system that most other Romance languages simplified. The Latin possessive itself was built on the oblique stem of the first-person pronoun.

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