adevărat

Romanian

Etymology

From adevăra (“to come true”, obsolete variant of adeveri) +‎ -at.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.de.vəˈrat/

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• Rhymes: -at
• Hyphenation: a‧de‧vă‧rat

Adjective

adevărat m or n (feminine singular adevărată, masculine plural adevărați, feminine and neuter plural adevărate)

1. true (that which yields a truth)

   Antonyms: fals, neadevărat

   Povestea este adevărată, dar neinteresantă.

   The story is true, but uninteresting.

   Este adevărat că suspectul este vinovat.

   It is true that the suspect is guilty.

2. true, real (authentic, the real deal)

   Synonyms: real, autentic

   Antonyms: fals, neadevărat

3. (literary, preposited to the noun) veritable

   Synonym: veritabil

   • 1936, Lucian Blaga, “Spiritualități bipolare [Bipolar spiritualities]”, in Spațiul mioritic [The pastoral space] (Trilogia culturii [The trilogy of culture]; 2), Bucharest: Cartea Românească, page 59:

     Ori Italia alcătuește un adevărat bâlciu de dialecte.

     [Ori Italia alcătuiește un adevărat bâlci de dialecte.]

     But Italy makes for a veritable fairground of dialects.

Usage notes

Certain adjectives, even in minimally polished language, can be placed before the noun (as opposed to the stylistically unmarked post-noun placement) to receive a specialised change of nuance. In this case, adevărat becomes, when preposited, the equivalent to English veritable: a component of literary language which often serves to insist upon a metaphor.

This is not to say that adevărat necessarily has this meaning when found before the noun; this inversion of word order may be simply employed for unrelated stylistic effect.

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	adevărat		adevărată		adevărați	adevărate
	definite	adevăratul		adevărata		adevărații	adevăratele
genitive- dative	indefinite	adevărat		adevărate		adevărați	adevărate
	definite	adevăratului		adevăratei		adevăraților	adevăratilor

Derived terms

• cu adevărat
• de-adevăratelea

Further reading

• adevărat in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)