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rezervă

reserve (a stock or supply kept for future use) /reˈzer.və/

noun#3075 most common

Also: reservation (doubt, reticence), backup/substitute (e.g. player, tire), stockpile

Example sentences

Am o rezervă de apă acasă.
I have a reserve of water at home.
Mașina are o rezervă de combustibil pentru urgențe.
The car has a fuel reserve for emergencies.
El este jucător de rezervă în echipa națională.
He is a reserve player on the national team.
Rezerva de aur a țării a crescut anul acesta.
The country's gold reserve grew this year.
Comandantul a trimis trupele de rezervă pe front.
The commander sent the reserve troops to the front.
Banca centrală a decis să suplimenteze rezervele valutare, deși unii economiști au primit măsura cu rezervă.
The central bank decided to top up its currency reserves, though some economists received the move with reservation.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativerezervărezerve
Genitiverezerverezerve
Accusativerezervărezerve
Vocativerezervorezervelor

Word family

a rezervato reserve, to book
rezervatreserved (booked; also reticent in manner)
rezervațiereservation, nature reserve
rezervortank, reservoir
rezervistreservist (military)

Etymology

Rezervă entered Romanian from French réserve in the nineteenth century, part of the wave of French vocabulary that reshaped modern Romanian after centuries of Ottoman and Slavic influence. French réserve traces back to Latin reservare, built from re- (back) and servare (to keep, guard, preserve). The same Latin base gives English reserve, preserve, conserve, and observe.

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