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slab
weak /ˈslab/
adjective#1009 most common
Also: thin, faint, low-fat
Example sentences
El este slab.
He is thin.
Ea este slabă și înaltă.
She is thin and tall.
Cafeaua asta e prea slabă pentru mine.
This coffee is too weak for me.
Semnalul wifi este slab în dormitor.
The wifi signal is weak in the bedroom.
Elevii slabi la matematică au nevoie de meditații.
Students weak at math need tutoring.
Argumentele sale au fost prea slabe ca să convingă comisia.
His arguments were too weak to convince the committee.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | slab / slabă | slabi / slabe |
| Genitive | slab / slabă | slabi / slabe |
| Accusative | slab / slabă | slabi / slabe |
| Vocative | slab / slabă | slabi / slabe |
Word family
slăbito lose weight, to weaken
slăbiciuneweaknessslăbitweakened, thinnedslăbănogscrawny, a weakling (colloquial)
slăbuța bit thin (diminutive)
Etymology
Romanian "slab" is not a Latin inheritance but a borrowing from Slavic, entering the language through centuries of contact with Old Church Slavonic and neighboring Slavic dialects. The Proto-Slavic form was *slabъ, meaning weak or slack. Romanian kept both the physical sense (thin, feeble) and the abstract sense (weak, poor quality), which is why the word covers a skinny person, a weak coffee, and a weak argument alike.
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