Imitative Interjections in Romanian


I wish I could take credit for assembling the following but it is from an excellent Romanian grammar textbook I found online (PDF).

pac! a hit, a shot
poc! a hit, a strike
buf! the fall of (esp) a large and heavy object
bum! an explosion, a loud boom
trosc! wood breaking, a slap
pleosc! a splash, the sound of something falling in water, a slap
pic! the sound of water (or other fluid) dripping
fâss the sound of a gas escaping/hissing
bâldâbâc! the sound of something going underwater
vâj the sound of wind blowing/rustling

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Personally I think my favorite amongst those is the “blurp-blurp” sound of something going underwater.  So cute how it sounds in Romanian :D

AND NOW YOU KNOW!

3 thoughts on “Imitative Interjections in Romanian

  1. My favourite interjection since I began with Romanian is pur și simplu “of!”.
    Otherwise known as “onomatopoeias” (yes, I had to look up the spelling of that -_- ).

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