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stradă
street /ˈstra.də/
noun#510 most common
Also: road (paved, urban), thoroughfare
Example sentences
Aceasta este o stradă.
This is a street.
Locuiesc pe o stradă liniștită.
I live on a quiet street.
Trebuie să traversezi strada cu atenție.
You have to cross the street carefully.
Copiii se jucau pe stradă până seara.
The children played in the street until evening.
Primăria a decis să repare toate străzile din centrul orașului.
City hall decided to repair all the streets in the city center.
Deși strada era pustie la ora aceea, ea a simțit brusc că este urmărită.
Although the street was deserted at that hour, she suddenly felt she was being followed.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | stradă | străzi |
| Genitive | străzii | străzilor |
| Accusative | stradă | străzi |
| Vocative | stradă | străzi |
Word family
stradăstreet
stradal / stradalăstreet-related, as in traffic or lighting
stradelăsmall street, lane, alley
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "stradă" from Italian "strada" during the nineteenth century, when Romanian scholars and writers pulled in large numbers of Italian and French words to modernize the language. Italian "strada" descends from Late Latin "strata (via)", meaning a paved way, the feminine past participle of "sternere", to spread or pave. That Latin verb goes back to a root meaning to spread or strew something flat on the ground.
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