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perspectivă

perspective /perspekˈtivə/

noun#3380 most common

Also: prospect, view, outlook

Example sentences

De pe balcon avem o perspectivă frumoasă.
From the balcony we have a beautiful view.
Nu am nicio perspectivă de viitor în acest oraș mic.
I have no future prospects in this small town.
Trebuie să privim problema dintr-o altă perspectivă.
We need to look at the problem from another perspective.
Perspectivele economice pentru anul viitor sunt incerte.
The economic prospects for next year are uncertain.
Din perspectiva istoricului, acest eveniment a schimbat cursul războiului.
From the historian's perspective, this event changed the course of the war.
Autorul surprinde complexitatea conflictului prin juxtapunerea unor perspective narative divergente, fiecare contestând autoritatea celeilalte.
The author captures the complexity of the conflict by juxtaposing divergent narrative perspectives, each challenging the authority of the other.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeperspectivăperspective
Genitiveperspectiveperspectivelor
Accusativeperspectivăperspective
Vocativeperspectivoperspectivelor

Word family

perspectivăperspective, view, prospect
perspectiviclong-term, forward-looking (as in 'plan perspectivic')
a perspectivato set something in perspective (rare, literary)
perspectivismperspectivism, the philosophical view that truth depends on viewpoint

Etymology

Perspectivă entered Romanian in the nineteenth century from French perspective, part of a wave of French and Italian loanwords that modernized Romanian vocabulary. The French word goes back to Latin perspectiva, short for ars perspectiva, the art of seeing through and rendering depth in painting. Latin perspectiva comes from perspectus, the past participle of perspicere, to look through or see clearly, built from per, through, and specere, to look.

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