English Translation
He failed to catch the 8:30 train.
Okay, a question for Romanian speakers. Is the last word here a typo, or is it short form/slang for “jumatate”?
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English Translation
He failed to catch the 8:30 train.
My friend who’s native Romanian speaker says that you indeed can say it this way “jumate”, it’s really a short form that works well
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Thanks. I wondered but had never heard it. I think there are common contractions like that which may not make textbooks, but everyone knows over there.
As another example are numbers in the teens: they are supposed to be, for example, 15 is cincisprezece, but many would say something that sounds like cinci-shpray. Otherwise, counting from 11 to 19 could take awhile….
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