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I am very confused about the use of femeie and femeia. Can anybody explain it, please?
Femeie means 'woman,' in the nominative case. The nominative case is the basic form of the noun. 'Femeia' means 'the woman,' which is the definitive case. In Romanian, unlike English (and many other languages), to say 'the woman' or 'the flower' or any other the+noun, you change the noun instead of adding a separate article ('the,' also known as a 'definite article'). The way you change the noun in Romanian is usually to add a different or additional ending. Example: A man = un bărbat. The man = bărbatul. A woman = o femeie. The woman = femeia.
The nominative case is the basic form of the noun; it is the form you would find looking the word up in the dictionary. For more information on this, you can Google 'nominative case in Romanian,' or 'definitive case in Romanian.' You can also do the same search for Latin, which has a very similar structure that was retained in many forms by Romanian.
Hope this helps - I am still learning the language, myself!
By itself, it may mean "He is" or "She is". The subject may be omitted if implied through context.
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I am confused by the use of 'este' and 'e' as translations of 'is'. Can anyone help me clarify it?
From what I understand, "Eu sunt" means I am but to make it negative you stick "nu" before the verb.
Can anybody tell me how accurate Duolingo is? As many people I know who speak other languages such as Chinese went through Duolingo's Chinese course and found that the information it was teaching users' was partially incorrect, I would like to learn Romanian but am worried that it may be teaching me false information.
Duolingo seems 95% accurate in Romanian, and the 5% is bugs and not mistakes.
Why sometimes indefinite article omitted and sometimes included. I translated to Romanian without and was marked incorrect, next question same phrase to translate from Romanian had it omitted.
There is no difference. Este is usually more formal, e is more coloquial, but they are kinda the same thing.
@Evanmulryan. First of all, it is bărbat and not bârbat. Ă and â are two different letters. Second of all, bărbat and om are in a certain way the same thing. Bărbat means man while om means human. Based on this, you can understand that a man is always a human, but a human can also be a woman. So we can say that "om" is the species and "man" is the sex. But in Romania we often use the word "om" for a Man, and in coloquial language you can say they are the same thing.
Correct: "bărbat and I'm" -> "bărbat and om" "while I'm" -> "while om" "și în" -> "and in"
I thought that polish was hard... learning this for the new kid in my school, doesn't know any english..
