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vac
empty, vacant, unoccupied /ˈvak/
adjective#4840 most common
Also: empty, unoccupied, deserted
Example sentences
Locul este vac.
The place is empty.
Scaunul din colț e vac de multă vreme.
The chair in the corner has been empty for a long time.
Tronul a rămas vac după abdicarea regelui.
The throne remained vacant after the king's abdication.
Poetul descrie un cer vac, fără nicio stea.
The poet describes an empty sky, without a single star.
În vechile texte juridice, un post vac trebuia ocupat în termen de treizeci de zile.
In old legal texts, a vacant post had to be filled within thirty days.
Case și curți vace se înșirau de-a lungul drumului părăsit, mărturii tăcute ale unui sat stins.
Empty houses and empty yards lined the abandoned road, silent witnesses of a dead village.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vac / vacă | vaci / vace |
| Genitive | vac / vacă | vaci / vace |
| Accusative | vac / vacă | vaci / vace |
| Vocative | None | None |
Word family
vacantvacant, unoccupied (the common modern synonym)
vacanțăvacation, holidaya evacuato evacuate
evacuareevacuationEtymology
Vac descends from Latin vacare, meaning to be empty or unoccupied, the same verb behind Romanian vacanță. Romanian kept this short form as an inherited word, while the fuller adjective vacant entered later as a learned borrowing from French or Latin. The two now sit side by side, with vac surviving mainly in older, literary, or formal legal usage rather than daily speech.
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