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sufragerie
dining room /su.fra.dʒe.ˈri.e/
noun#4710 most common
Also: dining room furniture set, dining suite
Example sentences
Masa este în sufragerie.
The table is in the dining room.
Mama găteşte în bucătărie şi noi mâncăm în sufragerie.
Mom cooks in the kitchen and we eat in the dining room.
Am cumpărat o sufragerie nouă pentru apartament.
We bought a new dining room set for the apartment.
Sufrageria casei noastre dă spre grădină, aşa că mâncăm mereu cu multă lumină naturală.
Our house's dining room faces the garden, so we always eat with plenty of natural light.
Bunica a păstrat sufrageria din lemn masiv moştenită de la părinţii ei, deşi mobila e greu de întreţinut.
Grandma kept the solid-wood dining room set inherited from her parents, even though the furniture is hard to maintain.
În vechile case boiereşti, sufrageria era adesea cea mai reprezentativă încăpere, decorată cu candelabre grele şi tablouri de familie, menită să impresioneze oaspeţii.
In old boyar houses, the dining room was often the most prestigious room, decorated with heavy chandeliers and family portraits, meant to impress guests.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sufragerie | sufragerii |
| Genitive | sufrageriei | sufrageriilor |
| Accusative | sufragerie | sufragerii |
| Vocative | sufragerie | sufragerii |
Word family
sufrageriedining room; dining room furniture set
sufragiutable attendant, altar server (older, less common today)
bucătăriekitchen
brutăriebakery
cofetăriepastry shop
Etymology
Sufragerie is built on sufragiu, an older Romanian word for a household or church attendant who served at table, a word linked to Latin suffragium. The suffix -erie, borrowed through French in words like brutărie (bakery) and bijuterie (jewelry shop), turns a root into a place name: the room where the serving happens. Romanian towns adopted the word as urban homes began setting aside a separate room for dining, on the French model. Today the word names both that room and, in everyday speech, the matching furniture set bought to fill it.
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