hârtie

Romanian

Alternative forms

• (dated) hîrtie, хыртие (hîrtie)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic харътиꙗ (xarŭtija, “papyrus, paper”), from Greek χαρτί (chartí). Compare Bulgarian хартия (hartija), Macedonian хартија (hartija) and Serbo-Croatian хартија), Aromanian hãrtii. Cf. also the doublet carte, which has the same Ancient Greek root, but passed through Latin, as well as hartă, straight from Greek, and cartă, a later Latin borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɨrˈti.je/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

hârtie f (plural hârtii)

1. paper

   coală de hârtie ― sheet of paper

   foaie de hârtie ― sheet of paper

Declension

Declension of hârtie

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	hârtie	hârtia		hârtii	hârtiile
genitive-dative	hârtii	hârtiei		hârtii	hârtiilor
vocative	hârtie, hârtio			hârtiilor

Derived terms

• hârtie igienică f
• hârțoagă

See also

• carte
• foaie
• pagină