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tipă

girl (informal, chick) /ˈti.pə/

noun#631 most common

Also: chick, young woman (slang)

Example sentences

Ea este o tipă drăguță.
She is a cute girl.
Am cunoscut o tipă simpatică la petrecere.
I met a nice girl at the party.
Tipa aceea lucrează la magazinul din colț.
That girl works at the corner shop.
Nu știam că tipa cu care vorbeai e sora ta.
I didn't know the girl you were talking to is your sister.
Tipele din grupul ăsta sunt mereu gata să te ajute, deși abia se cunosc între ele.
The girls in this group are always ready to help you, even though they barely know each other.
Deși tipa despre care se zvonea că plecase din țară a apărut brusc la întâlnire, nimeni n-a îndrăznit s-o întrebe de ce lipsise.
Although the girl who was rumored to have left the country suddenly showed up at the meeting, no one dared ask her why she had been absent.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativetipătipe
Genitivetipeitipelor
Accusativetipătipe
Vocativetipotipelor

Word family

tipguy, fellow (colloquial)
tipiguys (plural of tip)
tipegirls (plural of tipă)

Etymology

Tipă is the feminine counterpart of tip, a colloquial Romanian word for "guy" or "fellow" borrowed from French type. Romanian speakers added the native feminine noun ending -ă to form tipă, meaning "girl" or "chick" in casual speech. The word entered everyday slang in the 20th century and stayed informal, never crossing into formal registers.

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