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sertar
drawer /serˈtar/
noun#4403 most common
Also: till (of a cash register)
Example sentences
Cheile sunt în sertar.
The keys are in the drawer.
Deschide sertarul, te rog.
Open the drawer, please.
Am pus scrisoarea în sertarul de sus.
I put the letter in the top drawer.
Sertarul biroului era plin de hârtii vechi.
The desk drawer was full of old papers.
A uitat amintirile în fundul unui sertar, ca și cum timpul le-ar fi putut șterge.
He forgot the memories at the bottom of a drawer, as if time could erase them.
Proiectul a fost pus la sertar ani de zile, până când cineva și-a amintit brusc de el.
The project was shelved for years, until someone suddenly remembered it.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sertarul | sertarele |
| Genitive | sertarului | sertarelor |
| Accusative | sertarul | sertarele |
| Vocative | sertarule | sertarelor |
Word family
sertardrawer
sertărașlittle drawer (diminutive)
a pune la sertarto shelve something, to postpone it indefinitely
Etymology
Romanian dictionaries trace "sertar" to a Turkish borrowing, part of the layer of everyday household and craft vocabulary that entered Romanian during centuries of Ottoman contact in the Balkans. It is unrelated to the Latin-derived core of Romanian furniture words such as masă or scaun, which shows how mixed the everyday vocabulary of Romanian actually is. No further root beyond the Turkish source is reliably documented.
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