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tentativă
attempt /ten.taˈti.və/
noun#4930 most common
Also: try, attempted (as in attempted crime)
Example sentences
Aceasta este prima mea tentativă.
This is my first attempt.
Tentativa lui de a găti a fost un dezastru.
His attempt to cook was a disaster.
Poliția a oprit o tentativă de furt.
The police stopped an attempted theft.
După mai multe tentative eșuate, a reușit în sfârșit.
After several failed attempts, he finally succeeded.
Procurorii au încadrat fapta drept tentativă de omor.
Prosecutors classified the act as attempted murder.
Tentativa de lovitură de stat a fost înăbușită în câteva ore.
The coup attempt was suppressed within a few hours.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | tentativă | tentative |
| Genitive | tentative | tentativelor |
| Accusative | tentativă | tentative |
| Vocative | tentativo | tentativelor |
Word family
a tentato attempt, to tempt
tentativtentative
tentanttempting
tentațietemptation
Etymology
Tentativă entered Romanian from French tentative, a noun use of the adjective meaning "testing, trying." That French word traces to Medieval Latin tentativus, built on the Latin verb tentare (a variant of temptare), "to try, test, attempt." The ultimate origin of Latin temptare itself is disputed among etymologists, so no further root is given here.
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