"Fata mănâncă carne de vită."

Translation: The girl eats beef.

[lesnehu]

Could this be also "The girl eats beef meat" or that's too literal?

[MarkFuller7]

If you want to be literal you would say, "The girl eats meat of beef". Which is certainly too literal. :)

[Richlogos]

So beef, "carne de vită" is like saying "meat of life", a nice expression! The word vită even means beef in Romanian, but the form viață means life itself.