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tristă
sad /ˈtris.tə/
adjective#2882 most common
Also: sorrowful, melancholy
Example sentences
Ea este tristă.
She is sad.
Maria pare tristă azi.
Maria seems sad today.
Fetița era tristă pentru că și-a pierdut jucăria.
The little girl was sad because she had lost her toy.
Mi-a povestit o întâmplare tristă din copilăria ei.
She told me a sad story from her childhood.
Deși zâmbea politicos, privirea ei rămânea tristă.
Although she smiled politely, her gaze stayed sad.
În ciuda succesului aparent, exista în ea o tristă resemnare pe care nimeni nu o putea alina.
Despite her apparent success, there was in her a sad resignation that no one could ease.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | tristă | triste |
| Genitive | triste | triste |
| Accusative | tristă | triste |
| Vocative | tristă | triste |
Word family
tristsad (masculine form)
tristețesadness
a întristato sadden, to grieve
întristatsaddened, grieved
tristuțăa bit sad (diminutive, feminine)
Etymology
Tristă is the feminine form of trist, from Latin tristis, meaning sad or gloomy. The word passed into Romanian as part of the core Latin vocabulary retained across the Romance languages. Its origin inside Latin itself is not firmly settled, so no deeper root is given here.
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