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shh! (interjection demanding silence) /st/
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Also: hush!, quiet!
Example sentences
St! Nu face gălăgie!
Shh! Don't make noise!
St! Vine profesorul.
Shh! The teacher is coming.
St, copii, liniște în clasă!
Shh, children, quiet in the classroom!
St! Am auzit un zgomot ciudat afară.
Shh! I heard a strange noise outside.
A pus degetul la buze și a șoptit: „St, dorm copiii!”
He put his finger to his lips and whispered, "Shh, the children are sleeping!"
„St!”, a șuierat el printre dinți, făcându-ne semn să tăcem.
"Shh!" he hissed through his teeth, motioning for us to be quiet.
Word family
pstpsst, used to quietly attract someone's attention
tăceresilencea tăceato be silent, to stop talking
liniștequiet, stillnessEtymology
"St" is an onomatopoeic interjection built directly from the hushing sound people make to call for silence. It is not inherited from a Latin or older Indo-European word; it arose the way many hush-sounds do, by imitation of the sound itself. Similar imitative interjections exist in many unrelated languages, but they are parallel inventions rather than shared descendants of one root.
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