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puști
kid /ˈpuʃtʲ/
noun#1307 most common
Also: boy, youngster, brat
Example sentences
Puștiul se joacă în curte.
The kid is playing in the yard.
Un puști a venit la ușă.
A kid came to the door.
Nu-i mai spune "puști", că s-a supărat.
Stop calling him "kid", he got annoyed.
Puștii din cartier joacă fotbal în fiecare seară.
The kids from the neighborhood play soccer every evening.
Când eram puști, visam să devin pilot.
When I was a kid, I dreamed of becoming a pilot.
Deși arăta ca un puști neajutorat, s-a dovedit a fi cel mai isteț dintre noi.
Although he looked like a helpless kid, he turned out to be the sharpest of us.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | puștiul | puștii |
| Genitive | puștiului | puștilor |
| Accusative | puștiul | puștii |
| Vocative | puștiule | puștilor |
Word family
puștanteenage boy, adolescent
puștoaicăyoung girl, kid (female)
puștimekids, youth collectively
puștiuțălittle girl, small kid (diminutive, affectionate)
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "puști" from Turkish "pușt" during the long period of Ottoman contact in the Balkans. The Turkish word originally carried a coarse, pejorative sense tied to a young male. In Romanian the meaning softened over time into the everyday, mostly neutral or affectionate word for a boy or kid. This kind of semantic bleaching, where a loanword loses its original harsh edge, is common in Balkan borrowings.
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