"Eu sunt un bărbat și ea este o femeie."
Translation:I am a man and she is a woman.
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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!
I am confused by the use of 'este' and 'e' as translations of 'is'. Can anyone help me clarify it?
By itself, it may mean "He is" or "She is". The subject may be omitted if implied through context.
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.
There is no difference. Este is usually more formal, e is more coloquial, but they are kinda the same thing.
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.
I thought that polish was hard... learning this for the new kid in my school, doesn't know any english..
Whats the difference between woman and female? I wrote the sentence correct except i wrote female and not women.
"Un" is masculine, "o" is feminine.
See https://duome.eu/tips/en/ro, section "Numbers 1", paragraph "1, 2 and 12"
