"Patruzeci de bărbați mănâncă carne."

Translation: Forty men eat meat.

[garpike]

Why is 'de' here? Is it required for numbers larger than ten?

[potestasity]

Short and sweet: for numbers ending in numbers larger than 20.
Long and complete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_numbers#Preposition_de

[nunes89]

Can i say "numbers that end in -zeci and 'high numbers'"?

[potestasity]

As long as in "numbers that end in -zeci", you include the trailing units, i.e.
douăzeci și cinci de bărbați

[nahuatl1939]

Thanks for the link.

[nahuatl1939]

Mananca, from the popular Latin verb " manducare" this gave birth to Mangiare in Italian and Manger in French, whereas Spanish and Portuguese have " comer"
Classical Latin verbs are EDERE and COMEDERE ) this is where the Spanish and Portuguese verbs are coming from.

[Lng52-._]

Why isn't "mănâncăm" used?

[BenYoung84]

Because that's the "we" form, not the "they" form.

[nico.jbn]

The "we" form is actually "mâncăm"

[BenYoung84]

Of course. Thanks for spotting.