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modern
modern /moˈdern/
adjective#2676 most common
Also: contemporary, up-to-date
Example sentences
Telefonul este modern.
The phone is modern.
Casa mea este modernă.
My house is modern.
Locuim într-un apartament modern, construit anul trecut.
We live in a modern apartment, built last year.
Tehnologiile moderne au schimbat modul în care comunicăm.
Modern technologies have changed the way we communicate.
Artiștii moderni au respins convențiile tradiționale ale picturii academice.
Modern artists rejected the traditional conventions of academic painting.
Dezbaterea privind rolul statului modern în reglementarea economiei rămâne extrem de controversată.
The debate over the role of the modern state in regulating the economy remains highly controversial.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | modern | moderni |
| Genitive | modern | moderni |
| Accusative | modern | moderni |
| Vocative | modern | moderni |
Word family
modernitatemodernity
modernizato modernize
modernizaremodernization
modernismmodernism
modernistmodernist
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "modern" from French "moderne" in the 19th century, part of a wave of French vocabulary that reshaped Romanian during its modernization. French "moderne" itself comes from Late Latin "modernus", built on the adverb "modo" meaning "just now" or "recently". The underlying sense is "belonging to the present time", as opposed to ancient or old.
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