Hopefully by now you know that măr (mur) means “apple”, from the Latin. However there’s an interesting expression using this word, a bate măr pe cineva, literally “to beat someone apple” means to issue a severe beat down on someone. You can hear Guta issue this phrase around minute 2:00 where he says (of Stefan cel Mare), a batut măr pe tatari, meaning he beat … Continue reading Slang Word of the Day: Măr
Here in Romania as we head from autumn to true winter, we reach the gap where cold, freezing rain slowly but surely turns into snow. Just the other day, I heard someone use the word lapovita (lop oh-veet-za) and I knew I had to write about it on the blog. In Romanian, this word specifically refers to when it is simultaneously raining and snowing at … Continue reading Word of the Day: Lapovita
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 … Continue reading Imitative Interjections in Romanian
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