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proșt
stupid, foolish /ˈprost/
adjective#3673 most common
Also: fool, idiot, dumb
Example sentences
El este prost.
He is stupid.
Nu fi prost, ascultă-mă!
Don't be stupid, listen to me!
Vecinul meu crede că toți șoferii sunt proști.
My neighbor thinks all drivers are stupid.
Nu e proastă, doar nu i-a explicat nimeni bine problema.
She's not stupid, no one just explained the problem to her well.
Deși mulți îl considerau prost, s-a dovedit a fi cel mai isteț dintre noi.
Although many considered him stupid, he turned out to be the sharpest among us.
Ar fi prost din partea guvernului să ignore avertismentele repetate ale experților cu privire la criza economică.
It would be foolish of the government to ignore the experts' repeated warnings about the economic crisis.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | prost | proști |
| Genitive | prostului | proștilor |
| Accusative | prost | proști |
| Vocative | prostule | proștilor |
Word family
prostiestupidity, a foolish act or nonsense
a (se) prostito fool someone, or to become dull-witted
prostănacdimwit, blockhead (mocking)
prostescfoolish, silly (relating to stupidity)Etymology
The standard spelling of this word is prost; the form proșt is simply its stem before the plural ending -i, which regularly turns s into ș in Romanian (prost becomes proști). Prost was borrowed from a Slavic source meaning plain or ordinary, and its meaning narrowed in Romanian to stupid or foolish. The same root survives in neighboring Slavic languages with a milder sense of simple or plain.
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