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trist
sad /trist/
adjective#1325 most common
Also: sorrowful, gloomy, mournful
Example sentences
Sunt trist.
I am sad.
De ce ești atât de tristă?
Why are you so sad?
Copiii erau triști pentru că a plouat la picnic.
The children were sad because it rained at the picnic.
Filmul acesta are un final trist.
This movie has a sad ending.
Privirea ei tristă m-a făcut să înțeleg că ceva nu era în regulă.
Her sad look made me understand something was wrong.
Deși încerca să pară vesel, un aer trist îi umbrea zâmbetul, trădând o durere pe care cuvintele nu o puteau exprima.
Although he tried to seem cheerful, a sad air shadowed his smile, betraying a pain that words could not express.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | trist (m) / tristă (f) | triști (m) / triste (f) |
| Genitive | trist (m) / triste (f) | triști (m) / triste (f) |
| Accusative | trist (m) / tristă (f) | triști (m) / triste (f) |
| Vocative | tristule (m) / tristo (f) | triștilor |
Word family
tristețesadness
a întristato sadden, to make sad
întristatsaddened, made sorrowful
tristuța little sad (diminutive)
Etymology
Trist comes from the Latin adjective tristis, meaning sad or gloomy. The word passed into Romanian as part of the core Latin vocabulary inherited directly from spoken Latin in the region. The same Latin root spread across the Romance languages, so Romanian shares this word almost unchanged with its neighbors to the west.
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