"Eu o spionez pe nepoata mea."
Translation:I spy on my niece.
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So in Romanian, nepot/nepoata can mean both nephew/niece and grandson/daughter. That's interesting, because in my language, Shanghainese, it also works like this, but only with maternal ones.
OK, on the 10th iteration over this sentence, I must point out that when confronted with a sentence like "I spy on my niece/granddaughter" in English, the only thing that comes to mind is sexual perversion, incestuous voyeurism. "Spying" often means peeping. And there are lost of sentences with a spiona in this Romanian course, boys spying on girls, girls spying on boys, etc. Does it mean something else -- something socially acceptable -- in Romanian?
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There are nieces, that are older than the uncle. As far as I know a relation is allowed, so not realy accepted in western world. In Turkey they have other rules....