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munți

mountains /ˈmunt͡s/

noun#4241 most common

Also: peaks, highlands

Example sentences

Munții sunt înalți.
The mountains are tall.
Vara mergem în munți.
In summer we go to the mountains.
Mulți turiști vizitează munții Carpați în fiecare an.
Many tourists visit the Carpathian Mountains every year.
Zăpada de pe vârfurile munților nu se topește nici vara.
The snow on the mountain peaks does not melt even in summer.
Locuitorii satelor de munte au învățat de secole să trăiască în armonie cu munții care îi înconjoară.
The inhabitants of mountain villages have learned for centuries to live in harmony with the mountains around them.
Munții, martori tăcuți ai istoriei, păstrează în piatra lor urmele civilizațiilor care s-au succedat de-a lungul mileniilor.
The mountains, silent witnesses of history, hold in their stone the traces of the civilizations that followed one another over the millennia.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativemuntemunți
Genitivemuntemunți
Accusativemuntemunți
Vocativemuntemunți

Word family

muntemountain (singular)
muntosmountainous
munteanhighlander, person from the mountains
munticelsmall mountain, hillock

Etymology

Munți is the plural of munte, which comes from Latin mons, montis (mountain). Romanian kept this Latin word directly, unlike some neighboring languages that borrowed a Slavic term instead. The same Latin root gave French mont, Italian monte, and Spanish monte.

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