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pasager

passenger /pasaˈdʒer/

noun#2644 most common

Also: passing, transient, fleeting

Example sentences

Pasagerul urcă în autobuz.
The passenger gets on the bus.
Pasagerii așteaptă la poarta de îmbarcare.
The passengers wait at the boarding gate.
Stewardesa le-a cerut pasagerilor să își pună centurile de siguranță.
The flight attendant asked the passengers to fasten their seatbelts.
Compania aeriană a despăgubit pasagerii pentru zborul întârziat.
The airline compensated the passengers for the delayed flight.
Pasagera de lângă mine a adormit imediat după decolare.
The passenger next to me fell asleep right after takeoff.
Regulamentul privind drepturile pasagerilor aerieni a fost modificat anul trecut.
The regulation on air passengers' rights was amended last year.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativepasagerpasageri
Genitivepasageruluipasagerilor
Accusativepasagerpasageri
Vocativepasagerulepasagerilor

Word family

pasagerăfemale passenger; fleeting (feminine form)
pasajpassage, corridor
pasarelăfootbridge, walkway

Etymology

Romanian borrowed pasager from French passager, which functions as both an adjective ("passing, fleeting") and a noun ("passenger"). French passager derives from passage plus the agentive suffix -er, and passage itself comes from Latin passus, the past participle of pandere, "to spread out, to open." The core idea is movement through a space, which explains why the word covers both a traveler in transit and something that only lasts briefly.

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