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sfert
quarter (one fourth part) /sfert/
noun#3522 most common
Also: quarter of an hour (in time expressions), quarter-final (in plural idiom "sferturi de finală")
Example sentences
Este ora unu și un sfert.
It's a quarter past one.
Cumpără un sfert de kilogram de cașcaval.
Buy a quarter kilo of cheese.
Vin peste un sfert de oră.
I'm coming in a quarter of an hour.
A băut doar un sfert din sticlă.
He drank only a quarter of the bottle.
Trei sferturi dintre elevi au trecut examenul.
Three quarters of the students passed the exam.
Echipa națională a ajuns în sferturile de finală ale campionatului.
The national team reached the quarterfinals of the championship.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sfert | sferturi |
| Genitive | sfertului | sferturilor |
| Accusative | sfert | sferturi |
| Vocative | - | - |
Word family
sfertulthe quarter
un sfert de orăa quarter of an hour
trei sferturithree quarters
sferturi de finalăquarterfinals (sports idiom)
Etymology
Sfert came into Romanian from Hungarian fertály, a word Hungarian itself had borrowed from German Viertel, meaning quarter. Romanian added an initial s- sound, a common adaptation pattern when the language absorbed Hungarian loanwords in regions of long contact, such as Transylvania. The word settled into everyday use for fractions of an hour, a unit, or a whole.
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