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prăjitură
cake /prə.ʒiˈtu.rə/
noun#1970 most common
Also: pastry, sweet baked treat
Example sentences
Vreau o prăjitură.
I want a cake.
Mama a făcut o prăjitură cu ciocolată.
Mom made a chocolate cake.
Am mâncat o bucată de prăjitură la cafenea.
I ate a piece of cake at the café.
Prăjiturile bunicii sunt cele mai bune din sat.
Grandma's cakes are the best in the village.
Rețeta acestei prăjituri cere trei ouă și puțin unt.
This cake's recipe calls for three eggs and a little butter.
Deși dieta îi interzicea dulciurile, nu s-a putut abține să nu guste din prăjitura aromată cu scorțișoară.
Although her diet forbade sweets, she could not stop herself from tasting the cinnamon-flavored cake.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | prăjitură | prăjituri |
| Genitive | prăjituri | prăjituri |
| Accusative | prăjitură | prăjituri |
| Vocative | prăjitură | prăjiturilor |
Word family
a prăjito fry, roast, toast
prăjitfried, roasted, toasted
prăjitortoaster
prăjirethe act of frying or toasting
prăjituricălittle cake, cookie (diminutive)
Etymology
Prăjitură comes from the Romanian verb a prăji, meaning to fry, roast, or toast, combined with the noun-forming suffix -itură, which denotes the result of an action. The verb a prăji is a Slavic borrowing into Romanian, tied to a root meaning to roast or scorch over heat. Over time prăjitură narrowed from a general sense of something cooked over heat to the modern meaning of a baked cake or pastry.
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