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trei
three /ˈtrej/
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Example sentences
Am trei mere.
I have three apples.
Ea are trei pisici acasă.
She has three cats at home.
Ne vedem la ora trei după-amiaza.
We'll meet at three in the afternoon.
Cei trei martori au oferit versiuni diferite ale evenimentului.
The three witnesses gave different versions of the event.
Guvernul a promis să reducă deficitul cu trei procente până la sfârșitul anului.
The government promised to cut the deficit by three percent by the end of the year.
Abia după ce au trecut cei trei ani de exil și-a dat seama cât de mult îi lipsea țara natală.
Only after the three years of exile had passed did he realize how much he missed his home country.
Word family
treimea third, one-third part
al treilea / a treiathe third
treisprezecethirteen
treizecithirty
întreitthreefold, tripled
Etymology
Trei descends from Latin tres, the masculine and feminine form of the numeral three. Romanian kept this form largely intact while other Romance languages reshaped it into trois, tre, and tres. The word has stayed a basic, unchanging part of the counting system since Latin times.
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