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5 days ago
4 min

Romanian Moods: The Legacy of the Phanar in 8 Colloquial Words

These words of Neo-Greek origin can be circumscribed to the area of moods, attitudes and dispositions, and today they are all used in the fa

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Ilinca Stroe

Jun 15
2 min

Use It or Lose It (3): 10 Exercises to Practise Your Romanian

Do you feel challenged by these more advanced-level exercises to practise your Romanian?

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Ilinca Stroe

May 15
2 min

Use It or Lose It (2): 10 Exercises to Practise Your Romanian

Your Romanian will stay in good shape with these 10 short exercises covering vocabulary and grammar.

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Ilinca Stroe

May 6
4 min

A Peek into Romania’s Soul: 8 Quasi-untranslatable Romanian Words

But any (good) translation is inherently an approximation and an adaptation. Hence the adage “traduttore, traditore”. There are words whose

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Ilinca Stroe

Apr 15
1 min

Use It or Lose It (1): 10 Exercises to Practise Your Romanian

No practice, no learning. To keep your Romanian in good shape, here are 10 short exercises for you, covering both grammar and vocabulary (wo

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Ilinca Stroe

Apr 8
3 min

One word and beyond: “Rost” in 9 Everyday Romanian Phrases

"Rost": a Romanian noun which is essentially untranslatable. Although as part of some phrases it can be easily rendered as “point",

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Ilinca Stroe

Mar 25
3 min

#StayHome and Explore Romanian. 4 Activities You Can Do Using StudyRomanian Online Resources

So we, at StudyRomanian, would like to assist you in choosing language-learning activities that you can carry out using our resources, so th

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Ilinca Stroe

Feb 29
3 min

One word and beyond: “Drag” in 9 Everyday Romanian Phrases

There’s “drag” in English and “drag” in Romanian. The four-letter noun looks the same in both languages but the meanings are wide apart:

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Ilinca Stroe

Jan 27
3 min

One word and beyond: “Nas” in 11 Everyday Romanian Phrases

It is the key word in a great deal of phrases and idiomatic expressions where the overall meaning has to do, somewhat surprisingly, not with

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Ilinca Stroe

Dec 5, 2019
3 min

What Do We Ask When We Ask Nothing? 10 Answerless Questions in Romanian

In Romanian, we don’t have question tags. But we do have what we could call, generically, “rhetorical questions”: questions which don't

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Ilinca Stroe

Oct 25, 2019
3 min

One word at a time: “Păr”

In the mythology, fiction and arts of many cultures, it is a symbol of plentifulness, wellbeing, beauty and status, especially with women.

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Ilinca Stroe

Sep 11, 2019
3 min

One word at a time: “Gât”

They say, “capul se uită unde îl întoarce gâtul” (the head looks in the direction where the neck turns it), and that certainly suggests

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Ilinca Stroe

Jul 28, 2019
2 min

One word at a time: “Umăr”

In this framework, there’s one body part in particular that symbolises dependability: the shoulder – in Romanian, umăr, from Latin humerus.

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Ilinca Stroe

Jun 5, 2019
3 min

One word at a time: “Ureche”

This time round the focus will be on the word “ureche” (ear), which comes from Latin oricla (auricula), and the expressions it has generated

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Ilinca Stroe

Apr 22, 2019
4 min

One word at a time: “Picior”

One body part without which graceful activities such as dancing would be almost impossible is the key word in many useful Romanian phrase...

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Ilinca Stroe

Mar 13, 2019
4 min

One word at a time: “Ochi”

When it comes to phrases and idioms based on body parts, one such body part is especially prolific, the key word in many expressions: the...

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Ilinca Stroe

Jan 30, 2019
4 min

One word at a time: “Mână”

Continuing the series of articles about phrases based on body parts, which are as numerous in Romanian as they are in English, let’s have...

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Ilinca Stroe

Jan 9, 2019
4 min

One word at a time: “Cap”

Just like in English, names of body parts generate in Romanian numerous phrases, idioms and even proverbs which are quite common in every...

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Ilinca Stroe

Dec 19, 2018
3 min

Christmas Wishes, Romanian Style

To a nation where people wish each other things on a wildly wide range of occasions, from having a haircut to getting down to work or wea...

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Ilinca Stroe

Dec 12, 2018
3 min

One word at a time: „Sine”

If grammatical items could make a career just like humans do, this little word would become a superexecutive: sine. Based on the Latin 3r...

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