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muncă
work / labor /ˈmun.kə/
noun#304 most common
Also: job, toil, effort
Example sentences
Eu am multă muncă azi.
I have a lot of work today.
Munca ei este grea.
Her work is hard.
După multă muncă, am terminat proiectul.
After a lot of work, I finished the project.
Piața muncii s-a schimbat mult în ultimii ani.
The labor market has changed a lot in recent years.
Munca în echipă cere răbdare și comunicare constantă între colegi.
Teamwork requires patience and constant communication between colleagues.
Etica muncii pe care a moștenit-o de la părinți i-a marcat întreaga carieră.
The work ethic she inherited from her parents shaped her entire career.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | muncă | munci |
| Genitive | muncii | muncilor |
| Accusative | muncă | munci |
| Vocative | muncă | munci |
Word family
a muncito work, to labor
muncitorworkermuncitoarefemale worker
muncitworked hard, toiled
muncitorescof workers, working-class
Etymology
Muncă entered Romanian from Old Church Slavonic mǫka, which meant torment or suffering. Over time the sense narrowed and softened from pain to labor, a shift plausibly rooted in how hard physical work once felt like a form of suffering. This gives Romanian a word for work with a harsher emotional core than its Romance neighbors, whose words for work (like Italian lavoro) come from Latin roots tied to toil or a cattle-yoke rather than pain.
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