poveste

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • poveaste — obsolete

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic повѣсть (pověstĭ, “tale, narration, legend”), from Proto-Slavic *pověstь, from *po- +‎ *věstь (“message”). Compare Serbo-Croatian povest (“history”) and Russian повесть (povestʹ, “narrative, story”), Czech pověst (“narrative story”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poˈves.te/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -este
  • Hyphenation: po‧ves‧te

Noun

poveste f (plural povești)

  1. story, yarn, tale

Declension

Declension of poveste
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative poveste povestea povești poveștile
genitive-dative povești poveștii povești poveștilor
vocative poveste, povesteo poveștilor

Derived terms

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.