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tată
father /ˈta.tə/
noun#85 most common
Also: dad, papa
Example sentences
El este tatăl meu.
He is my father.
Tata pregătește cina în fiecare seară.
Dad cooks dinner every evening.
Casa tatălui meu este lângă parc.
My father's house is near the park.
Fără sfaturile tatălui său, nu ar fi reușit niciodată.
Without his father's advice, he would never have succeeded.
Relația dintre tată și fiu s-a schimbat radical de-a lungul anilor.
The relationship between father and son has changed radically over the years.
Tăcerea tatălui, deși apăsătoare, ascundea o grijă pe care cuvintele nu ar fi putut-o exprima.
The father's silence, though heavy, hid a care that words could not have expressed.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | tată / tatăl | tați / tații |
| Genitive | tată / tatălui | tați / taților |
| Accusative | tată / tatăl | tați / tații |
| Vocative | tată | taților |
Word family
tăticdaddy (affectionate diminutive)
tăticuțdaddy (extra-affectionate diminutive)
tătucdad (regional or dialectal)
tătâne-suhis father (archaic or dialectal)
Etymology
Romanian tată descends from Latin tata, an informal word for father used in everyday and child speech rather than in formal Latin prose. Words of this shape, a repeated consonant plus a vowel, turn up as terms for father across many unrelated language families, likely because they echo early infant babbling. Because of this, linguists are cautious about tracing tată back to a single reconstructed root shared by all of them.
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