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"Limbile vechi sunt grele."
Translation:The old languages are hard.
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1 year ago7 Comments
FerEtayoRguez
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Do you really need the article here? I feel the Romanian sentence could translate as Old languages are hard, even though in Romanian you express generality with the definite form...
SamJustin201
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You definitely don't need the English definite article here. If you're expressing a generality, it's always omitted.
cosmo-pedant
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I join in this question, but also wonder why "grele" sounds like it is pronounced with three syllables. Oh, perhaps it is because the "r" is rolled!
SamJustin201
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It's only two syllables. The rolled r sound is pretty difficult for English speakers, but once you get the hang of it, it shouldn't add any extra syllables
Does this sentence mean that old languages are hard to learn?
