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pernă
pillow /ˈper.nə/
noun#3347 most common
Also: cushion, buffer (figurative)
Example sentences
Perna este albă.
The pillow is white.
Pun perna pe pat.
I put the pillow on the bed.
Mi-am cumpărat o pernă nouă pentru canapea.
I bought myself a new pillow for the sofa.
Copilul doarme cu perna lui preferată în brațe.
The child sleeps hugging his favorite pillow.
Fără pernele acelea moi, mă doare spatele dimineața.
Without those soft pillows, my back hurts in the morning.
Băncile sunt obligate să constituie o pernă de capital pentru a amortiza șocurile financiare.
Banks are required to build up a capital buffer to cushion financial shocks.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pernă | perne |
| Genitive | pernei | pernelor |
| Accusative | pernă | perne |
| Vocative | perno | perne |
Word family
pernuțăsmall pillow, throw cushion
pernițălittle cushion, pincushion
pernă de aerair cushion, also used figuratively for a buffer
pernă de siguranțăsafety buffer (financial or figurative)
Etymology
Pernă entered Romanian as a loanword from South Slavic, related to words meaning feather bedding. The source term itself goes back to the Slavic word for feather. Romanian absorbed many household and domestic-life terms from Slavic contact over the medieval period, and pernă belongs to that layer.
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