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sarcină
task, duty, assignment /sarˈtʃinə/
noun#1540 most common
Also: pregnancy, load, burden, electric charge (physics)
Example sentences
Am o sarcină nouă.
I have a new task.
Fiul meu are o sarcină de făcut pentru mâine.
My son has a task to do for tomorrow.
Medicul i-a confirmat sarcina în luna a treia.
The doctor confirmed her pregnancy in the third month.
Profesorul ne-a împărțit sarcinile pentru proiectul de grup.
The teacher divided the tasks for the group project among us.
Sarcina electrică totală a sistemului rămâne constantă.
The total electric charge of the system remains constant.
Guvernul și-a asumat sarcina complexă de a restructura întregul sistem fiscal fără a afecta clasele vulnerabile.
The government took on the complex task of restructuring the entire tax system without affecting vulnerable classes.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sarcină | sarcini |
| Genitive | sarcinii | sarcinilor |
| Accusative | sarcină | sarcini |
| Vocative | sarcină | sarcini |
Word family
a însărcinato entrust with a task; to make pregnant
însărcinatăpregnant
însărcinareassignment, commission
supraîncărcatoverloaded (unrelated root, common confusion)
Etymology
Sarcină comes directly from Latin sarcina, the pack or bundle a soldier carried on the march. The sense broadened from a physical load to any duty or burden one must carry out, and in Romanian it also came to mean pregnancy, the load a woman carries, and later, in physics, electric charge. Romanian kept the word through direct inheritance from Latin, unlike many neighboring languages that replaced it with other roots.
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