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vreme
weather /ˈvre.me/
noun#297 most common
Also: time, while, era, days (of)
Example sentences
Azi este vreme bună.
Today the weather is good.
Nu am vreme să mă joc acum.
I don't have time to play right now.
Vremea se schimbă foarte repede toamna.
The weather changes very quickly in autumn.
N-am mai vorbit cu el de multă vreme.
I haven't spoken with him in a long time.
Pe vremea când eram copil, satul arăta cu totul altfel.
Back when I was a child, the village looked completely different.
Cu trecerea vremii, resentimentele s-au estompat, lăsând loc unei împăcări tacite.
With the passing of time, the resentments faded, giving way to a tacit reconciliation.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vreme | vremuri |
| Genitive | vremii | vremurilor |
| Accusative | vreme | vremuri |
| Vocative | vreme | vremuri |
Word family
vremelnictemporary, fleeting
vremelnicietransience, impermanence
devremeearlyvremuritimes, days, era (plural sense)
Etymology
Vreme comes from Common Slavic, borrowed into Romanian rather than inherited from Latin. The Slavic source, reflected in Old Church Slavonic vrěmę, meant simply time. Many scholars trace it further back to a root meaning to turn, the same idea behind Latin vertere, so time was conceived as something that revolves, like a wheel or a season. In Romanian the word split into two closely linked senses: time and, especially in everyday speech, weather.
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