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pai
straw /ˈpaj/
noun#1044 most common
Also: drinking straw, stalk of grain
Example sentences
Beau limonadă cu un pai.
I drink lemonade with a straw.
Vaca doarme pe paie.
The cow sleeps on straw.
Am pus paiul în pahar înainte să torn sucul.
I put the straw in the glass before pouring the juice.
Acoperișul colibei era făcut din paie uscate.
The hut's roof was made of dried straw.
Întârzierea zborului a fost ultimul pai care i-a răpus răbdarea.
The flight delay was the last straw that broke his patience.
Chiar și atunci când totul părea pierdut, se agăța de orice pai de speranță.
Even when everything seemed lost, he clung to any straw of hope.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pai | paie |
| Genitive | paiului | paielor |
| Accusative | pai | paie |
| Vocative | paiule | paie |
Word family
paiestraws (plural form)
paiulthe straw (definite form)
pai de băutdrinking straw
ultimul paithe last straw, the final small thing that triggers frustration
a se agăța de un paito clutch at straws, to rely on a hopeless option
Etymology
Pai comes from Latin palea, meaning chaff or straw, an everyday farming word that Romanian kept from spoken Latin rather than borrowing later from a neighboring language. The same Latin root gave French paille, Italian paglia, and Spanish paja, all meaning straw. Latin palea has no securely reconstructed Indo-European ancestor, so no PIE root is listed here.
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