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nebun
crazy, mad, insane /neˈbun/
adjective#344 most common
Also: madman (as a noun), wild, frantic (informal intensifier), brilliant, amazing (slang, in phrases like "nebun de bun")
Example sentences
El este nebun.
He is crazy.
Ea crede că sunt nebun.
She thinks I'm crazy.
Nu fi nebun, nu poți sări de pe acoperiș!
Don't be crazy, you can't jump off the roof!
Câinele acela pare nebun de fericire.
That dog seems wild with happiness.
Vecinul nostru e un nebun care vorbește singur pe stradă.
Our neighbor is a madman who talks to himself on the street.
În romanul acesta, personajul principal înnebunește treptat, iar cititorul se întreabă dacă naratorul e cu adevărat nebun sau doar neînțeles.
In this novel, the main character gradually loses his mind, and the reader wonders whether the narrator is truly insane or simply misunderstood.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | nebun / nebunul | nebuni / nebunii |
| Genitive | nebunului | nebunilor |
| Accusative | nebun / pe nebun | nebuni / pe nebuni |
| Vocative | nebunule | nebunilor |
Word family
nebuniemadness, craziness
a înnebunito go mad, to drive someone crazy
nebunescwild, frenzied, crazy (attributive)nebuneștemadly, wildly
nebunaticfrisky, mischievous, playful
Etymology
Nebun is built from the negative prefix ne- attached to bun, the Romanian word for "good." Bun descends from Latin bonus. The compound originally meant something like "not good," in the sense of unsound or impaired, and settled into the meaning "mad" or "insane." This ne- + adjective pattern is productive in Romanian and appears in other negated forms as well.
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