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minut
minute (unit of time) /miˈnut/
noun#228 most common
Also: moment
Example sentences
Așteaptă un minut, te rog.
Wait a minute, please.
Filmul începe peste cinci minute.
The movie starts in five minutes.
Ultimul minut al meciului a fost foarte tensionat.
The last minute of the match was very tense.
În fiecare minut se nasc trei copii pe planetă.
Every minute, three children are born on the planet.
A reușit să rezolve problema chiar în ultimul minut, înainte de expirarea termenului.
He managed to solve the problem right in the last minute, before the deadline ran out.
Cronometrul măsoară timpul în fracțiuni de minut, nu doar în minute întregi.
The stopwatch measures time in fractions of a minute, not just whole minutes.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | minut / minutul | minute / minutele |
| Genitive | minut / minutului | minute / minutelor |
| Accusative | minut / minutul | minute / minutele |
| Vocative | minutule | minutelor |
Word family
minutarthe minute hand of a clock
minuțiosmeticulous, thorough
minuscultiny, minuscule
minorminor, lesserEtymology
Romanian "minut" comes from Latin "minutus," the past participle of "minuere," meaning to lessen or diminish. In medieval Latin, "pars minuta prima" meant the first small division of an hour, which gave rise to the modern sense of minute as a unit of time. Romanian likely absorbed the word through French and Italian influence during its modern vocabulary reform in the 19th century, alongside the older Latin inheritance.
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