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mizerie
misery, squalor, filth /mi.ze.ˈri.e/
noun#1620 most common
Also: poverty, mess, dirty trick
Example sentences
Camera lui e o mizerie.
His room is a mess.
Ce mizerie pe stradă după concert!
What a filthy mess on the street after the concert!
Trăiesc în mizerie de mulți ani.
They have lived in poverty for many years.
Mi-a făcut o mizerie și acum nu mai vorbim.
He played a dirty trick on me and now we don't speak anymore.
Corupția a adâncit mizeria în care trăiește o mare parte din populație.
Corruption has deepened the misery in which a large part of the population lives.
Mizeria morală a regimului s-a reflectat în fiecare decizie administrativă.
The moral squalor of the regime showed in every administrative decision.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mizerie | mizerii |
| Genitive | mizeriei | mizeriilor |
| Accusative | mizerie | mizerii |
| Vocative | mizerie | mizerii |
Word family
mizerpaltry, measly (e.g. a measly salary)
mizerabilwretched, contemptiblemizeriidirty tricks, nasty acts (plural, idiomatic)
a face mizeriito play dirty tricks (set phrase)
Etymology
Mizerie entered Romanian from French misère, itself descended from Latin miseria, meaning wretchedness or misery. The Latin root is miser, wretched, whose own deeper origin is not securely reconstructed. The word carries both the literal sense of poverty and filth, and the figurative sense of a mean or shabby act.
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