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responsabilitate

responsibility /res.pon.sa.bi.li.ˈta.te/

noun#1679 most common

Also: accountability, duty, liability

Example sentences

Este responsabilitatea mea.
It's my responsibility.
Copiii trebuie să învețe responsabilitatea de mici.
Children must learn responsibility from a young age.
Șeful mi-a dat mai multă responsabilitate la serviciu.
My boss gave me more responsibility at work.
Guvernul își asumă responsabilitatea pentru această decizie.
The government takes responsibility for this decision.
Responsabilitatea civilă a producătorului este reglementată prin lege.
The manufacturer's civil liability is regulated by law.
Distribuirea responsabilităților între instituții rămâne un subiect controversat în dezbaterile privind reforma administrativă.
The distribution of responsibilities among institutions remains a controversial topic in debates about administrative reform.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeresponsabilitateresponsabilități
Genitiveresponsabilitățiiresponsabilităților
Accusativeresponsabilitateresponsabilități
Vocativeresponsabilitateresponsabilități

Word family

responsabilresponsibleresponsabilthe person in charge, the manager
iresponsabilirresponsible
iresponsabilitateirresponsibility
a responsabilizato make someone accountable, to hold responsible

Etymology

Responsabilitate entered Romanian in the 19th century as a learned borrowing from French responsabilité, part of the wave of French vocabulary that reshaped modern Romanian. French built the word from responsable, which goes back to Latin respondere, "to answer" or "to pledge back." The Latin verb itself is re- plus spondere, "to promise solemnly," so the word's core sense is the state of being answerable for something.

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