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unealtă
tool /uˈne̯altə/
noun#5342 most common
Also: implement, instrument, pawn (figurative: a person or thing used by others)
Example sentences
Aceasta este o unealtă utilă.
This is a useful tool.
Am nevoie de o unealtă pentru a repara bicicleta.
I need a tool to fix the bicycle.
Fiecare meșter își păstrează uneltele curate.
Every craftsman keeps his tools clean.
Ciocanul este cea mai veche unealtă folosită de om.
The hammer is the oldest tool used by man.
A folosit limbajul ca pe o unealtă de manipulare.
He used language as a tool of manipulation.
Instituția a fost transformată treptat într-o simplă unealtă politică, golită de orice autonomie reală.
The institution was gradually turned into a mere political tool, stripped of any real autonomy.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | unealtă | unelte |
| Genitive | unelte | unelte |
| Accusative | unealtă | unelte |
| Vocative | unealtă | unelte |
Word family
uneltetools (plural)
a uneltito scheme, to plot
uneltirescheming, plotting
uneltitorschemer, plotter
Etymology
Unealtă is a native Romanian formation tied to the verb a unelti, an older sense of which was to arrange or contrive something for a purpose, later narrowing to to plot or scheme. Both words are generally traced to a Slavic base, but specialists do not agree on the exact source word, so the derivation is treated as uncertain rather than fixed. The noun kept the concrete meaning of a device used to do work, while the verb kept the more abstract sense of devising a plan.
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