"un usturoi, doi usturoi."
Translation:one clove of garlic, two cloves of garlic.
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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".
Sorry to disagree, but you certainly can count 'garlics" in English. When I buy fresh garlic, I buy it by the "head". If I am buying more than one, I don't say "I want three heads of garlic"; I say "I want three garlics". It is understood that I am talking about heads and not cloves, because the garlic is not sold in cloves. It's all about the context.
Head of garlic :)) nice. This is CĂPĂȚÂNĂ de usturoi. Că-pă-țâ-nă. Female word
No, it's like "sheep". Water doesn't have have a plural form, "usturoi" just has the same form for singular and plural.
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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".
If you are discussing different species of fish, then fish would take a plural form. For example: I bought salmon and perch at the market. I think I'll prepare the fishes tonight for dinner. But I bought three catfish filletm i will fix those fish tomorrow.
Cloves are the little segments of garlic that get broken apart and peeled before cooking e.g. It's a very common term in cooking.
It is physically similar to grapes in that it is originally grouped together in a clove. A clove of garlic. A bunch of grapes. Although grapes and garlic are treated differently grammatically in Romanian and English.
