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vehicul
vehicle /veˈhikul/
noun#3011 most common
Also: automobile (formal/technical use), conveyance
Example sentences
Acesta este un vehicul.
This is a vehicle.
Vehiculul este parcat în fața casei.
The vehicle is parked in front of the house.
Am cumpărat un vehicul nou anul trecut.
I bought a new vehicle last year.
Poliția a oprit vehiculul pentru control.
The police stopped the vehicle for an inspection.
Vehiculele electrice devin tot mai populare în orașele mari.
Electric vehicles are becoming more and more popular in big cities.
Reglementările privind emisiile vehiculelor au fost înăsprite considerabil în ultimii ani.
Regulations on vehicle emissions have been significantly tightened in recent years.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vehicul | vehicule |
| Genitive | vehiculului | vehiculelor |
| Accusative | vehicul | vehicule |
| Vocative | vehiculule | vehicule |
Word family
vehicularrelating to vehicles or traffic
autovehiculmotor vehicle
a vehiculato convey, or figuratively to spread (an idea, rumor)
vehicularethe act of conveying or circulating
Etymology
Vehicul comes from Latin vehiculum, an instrument noun built on vehere, meaning to carry or convey. The word likely entered modern Romanian in the 19th century as a learned borrowing from French véhicule or directly from Latin, part of a wave of Western Romance vocabulary that modernized Romanian after centuries of Slavic and Ottoman influence. It sits alongside the everyday word mașină as the more formal, technical term for any means of transport.
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