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noștru

our /ˈnoʃtru/

adjective#838 most common

Also: ours, of ours

Example sentences

Câinele noștru e mic.
Our dog is small.
Satul noștru e frumos vara.
Our village is beautiful in summer.
Am mers cu tractoru' noștru la câmp.
We went to the field with our tractor.
Bunicu' noștru zicea că omu' harnic nu duce lipsă de nimic.
Our grandfather used to say that a hard-working man lacks nothing.
Graiu' noștru s-a păstrat așa cum îl vorbeau străbunii, cu tot cu șuierat.
Our dialect has been preserved just as our ancestors spoke it, hissing sounds and all.
Chiar dacă lumea zice că-i greșit, noi tot așa vorbim, cu «noștru» în loc de «nostru», că-i graiu' noștru dintotdeauna.
Even though people say it's wrong, we still talk this way, with 'noștru' instead of 'nostru,' because it has been our dialect all along.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativenoștrunoștri
Genitivenoștrunoștri
Accusativenoștrunoștri
VocativeNoneNone

Word family

nostruour (standard spelling, masc. sg.)noastrăour (fem. sg.)
noastreour (fem. pl.)
noiwe
nouăto us / us

Etymology

This is a regional pronunciation of standard Romanian nostru, our, found in northern Transylvanian and Maramureș speech, where s often shifts to ș before a consonant. The underlying word descends from Latin noster, itself built from the oblique stem of the pronoun we plus an adjectival suffix. The Latin form spread across the Romance languages largely unchanged in meaning.

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