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sansă
chance /ˈʃan.sə/
noun#1348 most common
Also: opportunity, luck, prospect
Example sentences
Am o șansă bună.
I have a good chance.
Nu am nicio șansă să câștig.
I have no chance of winning.
Aceasta este ultima ta șansă.
This is your last chance.
Șansele de reușită sunt mici.
The chances of success are small.
Trebuie să profităm de fiecare șansă pe care o avem.
We must take advantage of every chance we have.
Deși șansele îi erau potrivnice, a reușit să răstoarne soarta printr-o hotărâre neclintită.
Although the odds were against him, he managed to turn his fate around through unwavering determination.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | șansă | șanse |
| Genitive | șanse | șanse |
| Accusative | șansă | șanse |
| Vocative | șansă | șanse |
Word family
șansăchance, opportunity, luck
neșansăbad luck, misfortune
a avea șanseto have chances, to have prospects
ultima șansăthe last chance
din nou o șansăanother chance
Etymology
Romanian borrowed șansă from French chance in the nineteenth century, part of a wave of French loanwords that reshaped Romanian vocabulary. French chance descends from Old French cheance, meaning the fall of dice, from Vulgar Latin cadentia, a noun built on cadere, to fall. The sense shifted from a literal fall of the dice to the abstract idea of luck or opportunity.
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