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tren
train /ˈtren/
noun#911 most common
Also: lifestyle (in the idiom "tren de viață")
Example sentences
Trenul pleacă la ora zece.
The train leaves at ten o'clock.
Am pierdut trenul de dimineață.
I missed the morning train.
Călătorim cu trenul până la Cluj.
We are traveling by train to Cluj.
Trenul de noapte întârzie de obicei o oră.
The night train is usually an hour late.
Ducea un tren de viață pe care nu și-l putea permite.
He was leading a lifestyle he could not afford.
Dacă n-ar fi întârziat trenurile, am fi ajuns mult mai devreme.
If the trains had not been late, we would have arrived much earlier.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | trenul | trenurile |
| Genitive | trenului | trenurilor |
| Accusative | trenul | trenurile |
| Vocative | trenule | trenurilor |
Word family
trenulețlittle train, toy train
tren de marfăfreight train
tren de persoanepassenger train
tren de viațăstandard of living, lifestyle
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "tren" from French "train" in the 19th century, along with much of its modern railway vocabulary. French "train" itself comes from the verb "trainer", to drag or pull, tracing back to Latin "trahere", to pull. The word entered Romanian as part of a wave of French loanwords during the modernization of the language.
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