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miercuri

Wednesday /ˈmjer.kuri/

noun#3680 most common

Also: on Wednesdays (habitual sense)

Example sentences

Astăzi este miercuri.
Today is Wednesday.
Ne vedem miercuri la ora zece.
We'll see each other on Wednesday at ten o'clock.
Miercurea viitoare plec în vacanță.
Next Wednesday I'm leaving on vacation.
În fiecare miercuri mergem la piață să cumpărăm legume proaspete.
Every Wednesday we go to the market to buy fresh vegetables.
Ședința consiliului a fost amânată de miercuri până vineri, din cauza lipsei de cvorum.
The council meeting was postponed from Wednesday to Friday, due to lack of quorum.
Deși inițial programase întâlnirea pentru miercurea dinaintea sărbătorilor, a trebuit să o reprogrameze, întrucât majoritatea colegilor anunțaseră deja că vor lipsi.
Although he had initially scheduled the meeting for the Wednesday before the holidays, he had to reschedule it, since most colleagues had already announced they would be absent.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativemiercurimiercuri
Genitivemiercuriimiercurilor
Accusativemiercurimiercuri
Vocativemiercurimiercuri

Word family

miercureathe Wednesday (definite article form, used with adjectives, e.g. miercurea viitoare)
miercurilethe Wednesdays (definite plural, habitual sense)
de miercurifrom Wednesday on, starting Wednesday
Miercurea CenușiiAsh Wednesday

Etymology

Miercuri comes from the Latin phrase dies Mercurii, the day of Mercury, with dies eventually dropped and the genitive Mercurii surviving on its own. This mirrors the pattern of the other Romanian weekday names, each built on the genitive of a Roman god's name. The word passed into Romanian through spoken Latin in the region, alongside the other day names.

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