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supă
soup /ˈsupə/
noun#2287 most common
Also: broth
Example sentences
Eu mănânc supă.
I eat soup.
Mama face supă de pui în fiecare duminică.
Mom makes chicken soup every Sunday.
Supa era prea fierbinte ca să o mănânc imediat.
The soup was too hot for me to eat right away.
Bunica a adăugat un praf de sare în supă, chiar înainte să o servească.
Grandma added a pinch of salt to the soup, right before serving it.
Gustul supei se schimbă radical dacă adaugi puțină smântână la final.
The taste of the soup changes radically if you add a little sour cream at the end.
Deși mulți consideră supa un fel banal, în bucătăria tradițională românească ea reprezintă adesea temelia unei mese întregi.
Although many consider soup a plain dish, in traditional Romanian cooking it often forms the foundation of an entire meal.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | supă | supe |
| Genitive | supei | supelor |
| Accusative | supă | supe |
| Vocative | supo | supelor |
Word family
supierăsoup tureen
supă-cremăcream soup
supicicălittle soup (informal, diminutive)
a lua supato have soup (as a course)
Etymology
Romanian "supă" comes from French "soupe", part of a wave of French borrowings that reshaped Romanian's culinary vocabulary in the 19th century. The French word itself traces to Vulgar Latin "suppa", a term for bread soaked in broth, which is generally linked to a Germanic source. The Romanian form kept the meaning but shed the older sense of soaked bread, settling on the modern sense of a cooked liquid dish.
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