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sală
hall (a large room) /ˈsa.lə/
noun#830 most common
Also: room, auditorium
Example sentences
Sala este mare.
The hall is big.
Mergem în sala de sport.
We are going to the gym.
Elevii așteaptă în sala de clasă.
The students are waiting in the classroom.
Sala de spectacole era plină până la refuz.
The auditorium was packed to capacity.
Ședința s-a ținut într-o sală de conferințe de la etajul doi.
The meeting was held in a conference room on the second floor.
Deși sala fusese renovată recent, ecoul pașilor pe parchet trăda vechimea clădirii.
Although the hall had been recently renovated, the echo of footsteps on the parquet betrayed the building's age.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sală | săli |
| Genitive | săli | săli |
| Accusative | sală | săli |
| Vocative | sală | săli |
Word family
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "sală" from French "salle" during the nineteenth-century wave of French loanwords that modernized Romanian vocabulary. French "salle" itself comes from a Germanic word for a hall or dwelling, brought into Gallo-Romance by Frankish settlers. The same Germanic root gave English "hall" and German "Saal". So Romanian, English, and German each reached a similar word for a large room by different routes.
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