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zece
ten /ˈze.tʃe/
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Also: a top grade (10/10 in the Romanian school system)
Example sentences
Am zece ani.
I am ten years old.
În clasă sunt zece elevi.
There are ten students in the classroom.
Am luat nota zece la matematică.
I got a ten (the top grade) in math.
Autobuzul pleacă la fiecare zece minute.
The bus leaves every ten minutes.
Compania a crescut de zece ori în ultimii cinci ani.
The company has grown tenfold in the last five years.
Dacă ar fi să dau o notă acestui roman, i-aș da un zece fără ezitare.
If I had to grade this novel, I would give it a ten without hesitation.
Word family
zecitens (plural, used in compound numbers)
zecimea tenth part
zecimaldecimal
înzecittenfold
douăzecitwenty (literally two-tens)Etymology
Zece comes from Latin decem, meaning ten. The initial d sound shifted to z before a front vowel, a regular change in the history of Romanian. The word has stayed close to its Latin form for over a thousand years.
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