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tensiune
tension /tenˈsjune/
noun#2653 most common
Also: voltage, blood pressure, stress
Example sentences
Am tensiune mare.
I have high blood pressure.
Cablul acesta are o tensiune de 220 de volți.
This cable carries a voltage of 220 volts.
Se simte multă tensiune între ei doi.
There is a lot of tension between the two of them.
Tensiunea din sală a crescut pe măsură ce meciul se apropia de final.
The tension in the hall rose as the match neared its end.
Inginerii au măsurat tensiunea din cablul de oțel înainte de a-l instala pe pod.
The engineers measured the tension in the steel cable before installing it on the bridge.
Tensiunea diplomatică dintre cele două state s-a acutizat după declarațiile ministrului de externe.
Diplomatic tension between the two states worsened after the foreign minister's statements.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | tensiune | tensiuni |
| Genitive | tensiunii | tensiunilor |
| Accusative | tensiune | tensiuni |
| Vocative | tensiune | tensiuni |
Word family
tensionato put under tension, to strain
tensionattense, strained
tensionalrelating to tension or blood pressure
hipertensiunehypertension
hipotensiunehypotension, low blood pressure
Etymology
Tensiune entered Romanian in the nineteenth century as part of a wave of French and Latin borrowings that modernized the language's vocabulary. It comes from French tension, itself from Latin tensio, tensionem, the noun of tendere, meaning to stretch. Romanian adapted the French -ion ending to the native-feeling suffix -iune, the same pattern seen in pasiune and acțiune.
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