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socoteală
reckoning, calculation /so.koˈte̯a.lə/
noun#4381 most common
Also: bill/tab, account, sense (as in 'there's no sense in it')
Example sentences
Fac o socoteală simplă.
I'm doing a simple calculation.
Ai făcut bine socoteala?
Did you get the calculation right?
Chelnerul ne-a adus socoteala la masă.
The waiter brought us the bill at the table.
Nu-i nicio socoteală să muncești atât pentru atât de puțini bani.
There's no sense in working so much for so little money.
Fiecare țăran își ținea socotelile într-un caiet vechi.
Each peasant kept his accounts in an old notebook.
Socoteala de-acasă nu se potrivește niciodată cu cea din târg, spunea bunicul, amintind că planurile noastre rareori rezistă realității.
The reckoning made at home never matches the one at the market, grandfather used to say, reminding us that our plans rarely survive reality.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | socoteală | socoteli |
| Genitive | socoteli | socoteli |
| Accusative | socoteală | socoteli |
| Vocative | socoteală | socoteli |
Word family
a socotito reckon, count, consider
socotitoraccountant; calculating, prudent
nesocotitreckless, rash
nesocotințărecklessness, rashness
Etymology
Socoteală is built from the verb a socoti, meaning to reckon, count, or judge, plus the suffix -eală, which turns verbs into feminine abstract nouns naming an action or its result. A socoti itself traces to a Slavic source that entered Romanian during the long period of contact with Slavic-speaking neighbors. The noun kept the verb's core sense of tallying and weighing, later stretching to cover a written bill and, more loosely, plain good sense.
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