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nicăieri
nowhere /nikəˈjeri/
adverb#1122 most common
Also: not anywhere, in no place
Example sentences
Pisica nu este nicăieri.
The cat is nowhere to be found.
Nu găsesc cheile nicăieri în casă.
I can't find the keys anywhere in the house.
Am căutat biletele peste tot, dar nu erau nicăieri.
I looked for the tickets everywhere, but they weren't anywhere.
Într-un oraș atât de mare, nu te poți ascunde nicăieri pentru multă vreme.
In such a big city, you can't hide anywhere for long.
Autorul descrie un personaj care nu se simte acasă nicăieri, nici în satul natal, nici în capitală.
The author describes a character who feels at home nowhere, neither in his native village nor in the capital.
Nicăieri altundeva în literatura română nu găsim o descriere atât de exactă a singurătății urbane.
Nowhere else in Romanian literature do we find such an exact description of urban loneliness.
Word family
nicinor, not evenundewhereundevasomewhereoriundeanywhere, wherever
niciundenowhere (rarer synonym of nicăieri)
Etymology
Nicăieri is built on the negative particle nici, meaning "not" or "nor," which goes back to Latin nec. That particle is fused with an old adverbial element tied to place, a piece no longer used on its own in modern Romanian. Because that second piece is fossilized, scholars do not agree on its exact source, so the full derivation of nicăieri stays partly open. The word belongs to a small family of Romanian negative adverbs built the same way, such as niciodată ("never") and nicidecum ("by no means").
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