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nenorocită

wretched /ne.no.roˈt͡ʃi.tə/

adjective#1800 most common

Also: unfortunate, damned, cursed

Example sentences

Pisica aceasta este nenorocită, nu are stăpân.
This cat is unfortunate, it has no owner.
A fost o zi nenorocită pentru noi toți.
It was a wretched day for all of us.
Biata nenorocită a pierdut tot ce avea.
The poor wretch lost everything she had.
Nenorocita de imprimantă s-a stricat din nou.
The damn printer broke again.
Nenorocito, de ce nu mi-ai spus adevărul?
You wretch, why didn't you tell me the truth?
Deși toți o credeau nenorocită, ea și-a reconstruit viața cu o forță de care nimeni nu s-ar fi așteptat.
Although everyone thought her wretched, she rebuilt her life with a strength no one expected.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativenenorocitănenorocite
Genitivenenorociteinenorocitelor
Accusativenenorocitănenorocite
Vocativenenorocitonenorocitelor

Word family

nenorocitwretched, damned (masculine)
a nenorocito ruin, to bring misfortune upon
nenorociremisfortune, disaster
noroclucknorocoslucky

Etymology

Nenorocită is the feminine form of nenorocit, the past participle of the verb a nenoroci, meaning to ruin or to bring misfortune upon someone. The verb is built from the negative prefix ne- attached to noroc, meaning luck or fortune, plus the participle ending -it. Noroc itself entered Romanian from a Slavic source, so the word joins a Latin-descended negative prefix and participle suffix with a Slavic root for luck.

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