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I keep seeing am and are and subconsciously decide that they must mean "to be" instead of "to have". Thanks, English! Now you've gone and turned a girl into a horse.
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Luckily for me being a native Swedish speaker "are" makes sense since in Swedish it's "har".
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I am constantly trying to remember the difference between to be and to have at this point, too. I'm sure it'll get easier with practice and time.
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In Romanian, "stallion" has two meanings: "armăsar”=”male horse” and a slang meaning, ”armăsar”=”a very sexually active man”. So, we do not know what kind of stallion the girl has :))) (Oh, I forgot: it's Chapter "Animals". Sorry!) For details, see: www.wordreference.com/enro/stallion/
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In French we have the same : Un étalon ( that's the horse) and the other meaning is like you say. So when i saw this sentence, I immediatgely had to laugh !
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The second meaning of the word is more useful to a foreigner learning Romanian.
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The Romanian word for stallion sounds like the Spanish verb 'almorzar, which means "to have lunch". Coincidence?
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I doubt it. it is rather Turkish or Arabic. In Spanish the stallion is "Un semental" ( comes from "semen" ! ALMORZAR may have an Arabic origin like most of the Spanish words beginning with "AL" o "AC" or "AZ" for instance aceituna ( olive) comes from Arabic "as-zeitun" Azucar ( sugar) comes from " as-sukr) . Cotton, Spanish Algodon, comes from Arabic " Al-qutun" I will have a look at that. Etymology is so interesting.
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What's the difference between stud and stallion? Apparently the former isn't accepted
