joacă
Romanian
Alternative forms
- жоакэ (joacă) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʒo̯a.kə/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -akə
- Hyphenation: joa‧că
Etymology 1
Deverbal from juca (“to play”).
Noun
joacă f (uncountable)
Declension
Genitive-dative forms are uncommon and remain unstandardised by language authorities. For the definite forms, both joacăi and joacei are encountered, whereas the indefinite is rarer.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | joacă | joaca | — | — | |
| genitive-dative | joace | joacăi joacei |
— | — | |
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
joacă
- inflection of juca (“to play”):
- third-person singular/plural indicative present
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “joacă”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026