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vacanță
vacation /vaˈkantsə/
noun#2213 most common
Also: holiday, break, leave
Example sentences
Eu sunt în vacanță.
I am on vacation.
Copiii au vacanță de vară.
The children have summer vacation.
Anul acesta mergem în vacanță la mare.
This year we are going on vacation to the seaside.
Mi-am petrecut vacanța citind cărți și relaxându-mă.
I spent my vacation reading books and relaxing.
După o vacanță lungă, mi-a fost greu să mă reobișnuiesc cu programul de lucru.
After a long vacation, it was hard for me to readjust to the work schedule.
Dacă aș fi știut că vacanța se va încheia atât de repede, aș fi profitat mai mult de fiecare clipă.
If I had known the vacation would end so quickly, I would have made more of every moment.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vacanță | vacanțe |
| Genitive | vacanței | vacanțelor |
| Accusative | vacanță | vacanțe |
| Vocative | vacanțo | vacanțe |
Word family
vacanțăvacation, holiday
vacanțevacations (plural)
vacanțier / vacanțierărelating to vacation, holiday-related
vacant / vacantăvacant, unoccupied (a post or a room)
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "vacanță" from French "vacances" during the nineteenth-century modernization of the language, when many everyday and administrative terms were imported from French and Italian. The French word itself descends from Latin "vacantia," a noun built on "vacans," the present participle of "vacare," meaning to be empty or free of duties. The core sense, time free of obligations, has stayed intact across all these languages.
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