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recompensă

reward /re.komˈpen.sə/

noun#1964 most common

Also: recompense, bounty, prize

Example sentences

Câinele a primit o recompensă.
The dog received a reward.
Recompensa pentru câinele pierdut este de o sută de lei.
The reward for the lost dog is one hundred lei.
Poliția oferă o recompensă pentru informații despre hoț.
The police are offering a reward for information about the thief.
Elevii harnici primesc recompense la sfârșitul anului școlar.
Diligent students receive rewards at the end of the school year.
Fără o recompensă pe măsură, nimeni nu își va asuma un asemenea risc.
Without a proportionate reward, no one will take on such a risk.
Valoarea recompenselor oferite de bancă pentru informații privind frauda a crescut considerabil anul acesta.
The value of the rewards offered by the bank for information about the fraud has grown considerably this year.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativerecompensărecompense
Genitiverecompenseirecompenselor
Accusativerecompensărecompense
Vocativerecompensărecompense

Word family

a recompensato reward
recompensatrewarded
nerecompensatunrewarded
a compensato compensate

Etymology

Recompensă entered Romanian in the nineteenth century from French récompense, part of a wave of French and Italian borrowings that reshaped Romanian's learned vocabulary. The French word itself descends from Latin compensare, formed from com- (together) and pensare (to weigh), a frequentative of pendere (to weigh, to pay out). The core sense is a balancing out: something given back to match an effort or a loss.

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