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nenorocit
wretched, damned (miserable, unfortunate) /ne.no.roˈtʃit/
adjective#530 most common
Also: unfortunate, cursed, (as an insult) bastard, wretch
Example sentences
Ce zi nenorocită!
What a wretched day!
El este un om nenorocit.
He is a wretched, unfortunate man.
Nenorocitule, unde ai fost toată noaptea?
You wretch, where were you all night?
A avut o viață nenorocită, plină de necazuri.
He had a wretched life, full of troubles.
Nenorociții aceia au distrus tot ce am construit.
Those bastards destroyed everything I built.
Soarta nenorocită a personajului principal reflectă tragedia întregii generații.
The wretched fate of the main character reflects the tragedy of the whole generation.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | nenorocitul | nenorociții |
| Genitive | nenorocitului | nenorociților |
| Accusative | nenorocitul | nenorociții |
| Vocative | nenorocitule | nenorociților |
Word family
norocluck, fortunenorocoslucky
a nenorocito ruin, to bring misfortune upon
nenorociredisaster, misfortune
Etymology
Nenorocit is a native Romanian formation, not a direct loanword. It is built from the negative prefix ne-, the noun noroc (luck), a verb suffix, and the past participle ending -it, so it literally means something like made unlucky or stripped of luck. Noroc itself came into Romanian from a Slavic source, so the word combines a Slavic core with ordinary Romanian participle morphology. That mix of Latin-derived grammar and Slavic vocabulary is typical of Romanian.
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