"mărul"
Translation:the apple
December 28, 2016
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Again, I have since found out that the Romanian word for apple, the fruit, is neuter but the same word is used in masculine for the tree. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/m%C4%83r
The neuter in Romanian is different from the neuter in German or English. Actually, a Romanian neuter noun HAS a gender but it is different in the singular and the plural form (masculine for singular, feminine for plural (so their "combination" is "neuter")).
As such, an apple is masculine but (more) apples are... feminine (and conjugated accordingly).
(many other nouns have gender not corresponding to their French (that I know to some extent) equivalent (German is more close, but also with some differences in gender of nouns from Romanian))