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zonă
zone/area /ˈzo.nə/
noun#507 most common
Also: region, district, sector
Example sentences
Aceasta este o zonă frumoasă.
This is a beautiful area.
Zona din centrul orașului este foarte aglomerată.
The area in the city center is very crowded.
Am cumpărat o casă într-o zonă liniștită.
I bought a house in a quiet area.
Autoritățile au declarat zona periculoasă din cauza inundațiilor.
The authorities declared the area dangerous because of the floods.
Zonele rurale se confruntă cu un declin demografic accentuat în ultimii ani.
Rural areas face a marked demographic decline in recent years.
Delimitarea precisă a zonelor economice exclusive rămâne un subiect de dispută diplomatică între statele vecine.
The precise delimitation of exclusive economic zones remains a subject of diplomatic dispute between neighboring states.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | zonă | zone |
| Genitive | zone | zone |
| Accusative | zonă | zone |
| Vocative | zonă | zone |
Word family
a zonato zone, to divide into zones
zonarezoning
zonalzonal
subzonăsubzone
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "zonă" from French "zone" in the nineteenth century, part of a wave of French vocabulary that reshaped modern Romanian. French took it from Latin "zona", which came from Greek "ζώνη" (zōnē), meaning belt or girdle. The sense shifted from a physical belt to a girdling band around the earth, like a climate zone, and from there to any bounded area.
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