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urgență
urgency (also: emergency) /urˈd͡ʒent͡sə/
noun#1504 most common
Also: emergency case, pressing need
Example sentences
Este o urgență!
It's an emergency!
Sun la spital, este o urgență medicală.
I'm calling the hospital, it's a medical emergency.
Am ajuns la camera de urgență a spitalului.
We got to the hospital's emergency room.
Trebuie să rezolvăm această problemă cu maximă urgență.
We need to solve this problem with the utmost urgency.
Guvernul a declarat stare de urgență în urma inundațiilor.
The government declared a state of emergency after the floods.
Sentimentul de urgență resimțit de echipa medicală s-a transmis întregului personal al secției de urgențe.
The sense of urgency felt by the medical team spread to the whole staff of the emergency department.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | urgență | urgențe |
| Genitive | urgențe | urgențe |
| Accusative | urgență | urgențe |
| Vocative | urgențo | urgențelor |
Word family
urgenturgent, pressing
a urgentato expedite, to speed up
urgentarethe act of expediting
de urgențăurgently, as an emergency
Etymology
Urgență comes from French urgence, which traces back to Latin urgentia, an abstract noun built on the present participle of urgere, meaning to press or push hard. Romanian took the word in during the nineteenth century, part of a large wave of French borrowings that reshaped its formal and administrative vocabulary. The Latin verb itself is of uncertain deeper origin, so no further root is given here.
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