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personal
staff, personnel (the group of people employed by an organization) /persoˈnal/
noun#488 most common
Also: personal (adjective: belonging to a particular individual), personally, in person (adverb)
Example sentences
Personalul este amabil.
The staff is kind.
Hotelul nostru are personal prietenos.
Our hotel has friendly staff.
Personalul medical lucrează non-stop la spital.
The medical staff works around the clock at the hospital.
Accesul este interzis personalului neautorizat.
Access is forbidden to unauthorized staff.
Compania a redus personalul din cauza crizei economice.
The company reduced its staff because of the economic crisis.
Fluctuația ridicată de personal afectează productivitatea pe termen lung.
High staff turnover affects productivity in the long run.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | personal / personalul | — (mass noun, no plural in common use) |
| Genitive | personal / personalului | — |
| Accusative | personal / personalul | — |
| Vocative | personal | — |
Word family
persoanăpersonpersonalitatepersonality
personalizato personalize
impersonalimpersonal
personajcharacter, figureEtymology
Romanian personal comes from French personnel, which goes back to Latin persona, meaning mask or theatrical role and later an individual human being. Romanian absorbed the word during the nineteenth-century wave of French borrowings that reshaped its vocabulary after centuries of Ottoman and Slavic influence. Both senses in Romanian, the adjective meaning belonging to one person and the noun meaning the staff of a workplace, come from this same French source.
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