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vale
valley /ˈva.le/
noun#2286 most common
Also: dale, vale (poetic)
Example sentences
Casa mea este în vale.
My house is in the valley.
Copiii se joacă în vale, lângă râu.
The children play in the valley, near the river.
Am coborât în valea aceea frumoasă.
We went down into that beautiful valley.
Ceața acoperea valea în fiecare dimineață de toamnă.
Fog covered the valley every autumn morning.
Satul este așezat la poalele muntelui, în valea unde se întâlnesc două râuri.
The village sits at the foot of the mountain, in the valley where two rivers meet.
Localnicii spun că, de-a valea, apele au săpat de-a lungul secolelor un canion adânc.
Locals say that, flowing downhill, the waters carved a deep canyon over the centuries.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vale | văi |
| Genitive | văi | văilor |
| Accusative | vale | văi |
| Vocative | vale | văi |
Word family
văiugăravine, small rugged valley
vâlceasmall valley, dell
a lua la valeidiom: to sweep downhill, to carry away downstream
de-a valeadownhill, downward, downstream
VâlceaRomanian county name, derived from vale
Etymology
Vale comes from Latin vallis, meaning valley. The word passed into Romanian with regular sound changes, keeping its core meaning almost unchanged for two thousand years. It belongs to the oldest layer of Latin vocabulary in Romanian, alongside basic terms for land and terrain.
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