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real

real, actual /reˈal/

adjective#600 most common

Also: genuine, true

Example sentences

Aceasta este o poveste reală.
This is a real story.
El are o problemă reală.
He has a real problem.
Nu știu dacă acest pericol este real sau imaginar.
I don't know if this danger is real or imaginary.
Filmul este bazat pe fapte reale.
The movie is based on real events.
Diferența dintre lumea reală și cea virtuală devine tot mai greu de sesizat.
The difference between the real world and the virtual one is becoming harder to notice.
Oricât de reale ar părea amintirile lui, multe dintre ele erau doar reconstituiri ulterioare.
However real his memories seemed, many of them were just later reconstructions.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativereal / realăreali / reale
Genitivereal / realereali / reale
Accusativereal / realăreali / reale
Vocativereal / realăreali / reale

Word family

realitatereality
realistrealistic
realizato realize, to achieverealizareachievement, realization
irealunreal

Etymology

Romanian borrowed "real" from French "réel", itself from Late Latin "realis", built on Latin "res" meaning thing or matter. The word entered Romanian in the 19th century as part of a wave of French and Latin borrowings that modernized the language's abstract vocabulary. It kept a form close to the source, unlike many older, more phonetically worn-down native Romanian words.

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