"A șaptezecea fată e copilul meu."

Translation: The seventieth girl is my child.

[-Afina-]

Please explain to me, why you used "fată" and "copilul" here? Shouldn't it be "copila mea" because the gender has to match? Or is this the exception to the rule?

[Iris-92]

"Copil" is a masculine word, therefore it gets the masculine suffix -ul for the definite article and also the masculine form "meu" for "my". Whether it's a boy or girl doesn't matter in this case. I don't think "copila mea" even exists...

[glumflake]

"A șaptezecea fată e copilul meu./The seventieth girl is my child."

There is a multitude of children, at least 70 of them as you can see in the sentence. The children are a bunch of people, right? Those people(the children) are both males and females, thus they are referred to as males.

[MmeHibou1]

Why is este wrong and e right ?