groapă
Appearance
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably a substratum word, akin to Albanian gropë, or possibly derived from it. Compare also Aromanian groapã, Bulgarian гропа (gropa). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Old Norse grǫptr (“graving, grave, burial, funeral”), Old Church Slavonic гробъ (grobŭ, “grave”) and English grave.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: groa‧pă
Noun
[edit]groapă f (plural gropi)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | groapă | groapa | gropi | gropile | |
genitive-dative | gropi | gropii | gropi | gropilor | |
vocative | groapă, groapo | gropilor |
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