"Ei aveau tot ce voiau!"

Translation: They used to have everything they wanted!

[ocalex86]

I think we can also translate it as "They were having everything they wanted", no?

[BenYoung84]

Your proposed translation isn't great. "have" is used very rarely in the progressive form. This is because it's one of a few verbs that has a strong stative quality, i.e. it describes a state rather than an action. The exceptions are when have does not imply possession such as have a shower, have a meal, have a baby etc. So e.g. if the sentence was referring to eating out then your version would be okay.

[EvrikaAzur]

Am scris „They had all they wanted” și a fost acceptată!

[Glenn_ski]

Wait a minute - From other examples, I understood that the verb in noun clauses did not follow a sequence of tenses but were instead in present in Romanian. Why is the imperfect "voiau" used here?

[David-Herron]

wow that's a lot of vowels. There's two words that each have almost all the vowels in them.