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scaun
chair /ˈskaun/
noun#983 most common
Also: seat/throne (archaic, of a ruler), stool (bowel movement, medical term)
Example sentences
Acesta este un scaun.
This is a chair.
Copilul stă pe scaun.
The child is sitting on the chair.
Am cumpărat un scaun nou pentru birou.
I bought a new chair for the office.
Scaunul de lemn scârțâie de fiecare dată când mă așez.
The wooden chair creaks every time I sit down.
Domnitorul a fost înscăunat pe scaunul de la Iași.
The prince was enthroned on the seat at Iași.
Deși fusese numit pe scaunul de ministru, nu a reușit niciodată să-și impună reformele.
Although he had been appointed to the minister's seat, he never managed to push through his reforms.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | scaun | scaune |
| Genitive | scaunului | scaunelor |
| Accusative | scaun | scaune |
| Vocative | scaunule | scaunelor |
Word family
scăunellittle stool or chair (diminutive)
scăunașsmall chair, often for a child
scaun domnescprincely throne, historical seat of a ruler
a avea scaun la capto have good sense (literally: to have a seat in one's head)
înscăunato enthrone, to install in a seat of power
Etymology
Scaun entered Romanian from Old Church Slavonic skamьnъ, meaning bench or stool. Slavic languages passed the word into everyday Romanian vocabulary during the early medieval period, alongside many other basic household terms. Over time the word broadened from a simple bench to any chair, and later took on the figurative sense of a ruler's seat or an administrative post.
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