"un usturoi, doi usturoi."

Translation: one clove of garlic, two cloves of garlic.

[PieS717058]

shouldn't this be cățel de usturoi?

[hippietrail]

Both should be accepted. In English you can't count garlic without the word "clove" but in Romanian you can count garlic without any extra word or you can also use the Romanian word for "clove" which is indeed "cățel".

[vincemat]

How do you say "head of garlic"? As opposed to clove of garlic

[alur_blaze]

So garlic is like water in English, doesn't change by number?

[potestasity]

No, it's like "sheep". Water doesn't have have a plural form, "usturoi" just has the same form for singular and plural.

[LouisKelly5]

Fish is another great example of non-pluralization..1 Fish..100 Fish ;)

[Gene947760]

Yeah but fishes is correct too :-)

[gluadys]

No, it's not. There are a very few technical contexts where one might use "fishes". Even then "kinds/species of fish" would be more natural. In most cases only "fish" would be correct for the plural of "fish".

[NordicEstonia]

What about fishies?

[BenYoung84]

usturoi is like "sheep" but "garlic" is like "water".

[0Daro0]

so why is "a garlic, two cloves of garlic" wrong?

[Patrick154626]

I have the same question!!!