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vesel
cheerful /ˈve.sel/
adjective#3966 most common
Also: merry, joyful, glad
Example sentences
Copilul este vesel.
The child is cheerful.
Sora mea este veselă în fiecare dimineață.
My sister is cheerful every morning.
Copiii veseli cântau în curtea școlii.
The cheerful children were singing in the schoolyard.
Deși vremea era urâtă, turiștii au rămas veseli pe tot parcursul excursiei.
Although the weather was bad, the tourists stayed cheerful throughout the trip.
Bunicul spunea glume, mereu vesel, chiar și atunci când sănătatea îl trăda.
Grandfather told jokes, always cheerful, even when his health was failing him.
Veselia lui molipsitoare îi făcea pe toți din jur să devină veseli, indiferent de circumstanțe.
His infectious cheerfulness made everyone around him turn cheerful, regardless of circumstances.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vesel (m) / veselă (f) | veseli (m) / vesele (f) |
| Genitive | vesel (m) / vesele (f) | veseli (m) / vesele (f) |
| Accusative | vesel (m) / veselă (f) | veseli (m) / vesele (f) |
| Vocative | vesel (m) / veselă (f) | veseli (m) / vesele (f) |
Word family
veselcheerful, merry
veseliecheerfulness, merriment, joy
a (se) veselito cheer up, to make or become merry
Etymology
Vesel entered Romanian from Slavic, most likely Old Church Slavonic, during the centuries of close contact between Romanian speakers and Slavic-speaking neighbors and church institutions. The root spread across the Slavic family with the same core sense of cheerfulness or good spirits. Romanian kept the word as an everyday adjective rather than a formal or literary term.
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