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navetă
commute (regular back-and-forth travel to work) /naˈve.tə/
noun#3701 most common
Also: shuttle (space shuttle), shuttle (weaving tool)
Example sentences
Ea face naveta la muncă în fiecare zi.
She commutes to work every day.
Naveta durează o oră cu trenul.
The commute takes one hour by train.
Mulți angajați fac naveta între Ploiești și București.
Many employees commute between Ploiești and Bucharest.
Costul navetei a crescut din cauza prețului la combustibil.
The cost of commuting has risen because of fuel prices.
Naveta spațială a revenit cu succes pe Pământ după misiune.
The space shuttle returned successfully to Earth after the mission.
Deși naveta zilnică îi consuma aproape trei ore, prefera să locuiască la țară.
Although the daily commute took up almost three hours, he preferred to live in the countryside.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | navetă | navete |
| Genitive | navete | navete |
| Accusative | navetă | navete |
| Vocative | navetă | navete |
Word family
navăship, vessel
navalnaval, of ships
a navigato sail, to navigate
navigatornavigator, sailor
navigațienavigation, shipping
Etymology
Navetă entered Romanian from French navette, which originally meant a weaving shuttle and, by extension, any back-and-forth trip. French navette itself comes from Latin navicula, a diminutive of navis, meaning ship. The shape of a weaving shuttle, like a small boat gliding across the loom, gave the word its later sense of repeated to-and-fro travel, including the daily commute and the space shuttle.
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