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târg

market /ˈtɨrɡ/

noun#3152 most common

Also: fair, market town

Example sentences

Mergem la târg duminică.
We go to the market on Sunday.
Târgul din sat este mare.
The market in the village is big.
Am cumpărat legume proaspete la târg.
I bought fresh vegetables at the market.
Țăranii vin la târgul de vară să-și vândă produsele.
The farmers come to the summer fair to sell their goods.
În fiecare toamnă, orașul organizează un târg de carte.
Every autumn, the town organizes a book fair.
Bunicul povestea cu nostalgie despre târgurile de altădată, unde se auzeau strigătele negustorilor.
Grandfather spoke with nostalgia about the fairs of old, where the shouts of merchants could be heard.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativetârgtârguri
Genitivetârguluitârgurilor
Accusativetârgtârguri
Vocativetârguletârguri

Word family

a târguito bargain, to haggle over a price
târguialăthe act of bargaining
târgoveța townsman, a market-town dweller (archaic)
târgușora small market town

Etymology

Târg entered Romanian from Old Church Slavonic tŭrgŭ, meaning market or trade. The word spread across the Balkans and Eastern Europe along with Slavic trading networks. In Romanian it kept its core sense of a place where goods are bought and sold, and it later gave rise to many town names built on the pattern Târgu- plus a river or region name.

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