"Noi vrem ca voi să tăceți!"

Translation: We want you to be silent!

[jh963]

What's the role of ca here?

[trashjedi]

I believe it's "we want that you keep silent".
It's similar in French with "nous voulons que vous vous taisiez"

[rapuchan]

I can't type it on my smartphone, but don't we need the ca with diacritice on the a for it to mean "that"?

[GeoMan2]

No, "ca" is correct, ("că" is wrong).

[jh963]

I'm pretty sure that să plays that role.

[crbratu]

It is requested once you use "voi". So you can say "vreau să plecați" but "vreau ca voi să plecați"

[acetonum]

So it should be "că", not "ca"?

[crbratu]

autocorrect error... I edited now. Should be "ca"

[DornenEngel]

is there a difference in meaning?

[crbratu]

:-) unfortunately I am not a linguist ;-) This usage is part of the construction ”ca să” which could be translated as ”so that”:

”Pentru ca să nu mai poată avea nimeni acces la arhivă...” = ”So that nobody has access to the archive...”
”el a plătit un avion ca să ajungă în Turcia” = ”He paid for a plane (ride) so that he gets to Turkey ( to go to Turkey)”
”Am nevoie ca tu să vii la spectacol” = ”I need that you come to the show”(I need you to come to the show)

Note that - on top of the meanings that you listed - ”ca” can be also translated to ”than”: ”eu sunt mai înalt ca (decât) tine” = ”I am taller than you”

[crbratu]

no. Just two ways of saying it, similar to english ("I want you to..." or "I want that you...")

[crbratu]

"Noi vrem CA voi să tăceți" = "We want THAT you remain silent",
"Noi vrem să tăceți" = "We want you to remain silent" are both good translations

"Noi vrem voi să tăceți" = "We want you remain silent" (simply cutting "ca"and "that")- this is neither good romanian nor good english.

[DornenEngel]

thanks a lot crbratu for taking your time and teaching us your language. I spent some time this morning looking for the differences between ca and că. I always thought that the word THAT is reserved for că. I came up with the following sentences.

• o femeie ca tine - a woman like you
• ca de obicei - like usual
• lucrez ca inginer- I work as an enigneer

and

• că te-ai gândit la mine - that you thought of me
• (eu) cred că... - i think that
• nu ţi-am zis că... - didn't I tell you that

Having ca for THAT is new and was not introduced here in Duolingo so far. Is it only used in conjunctive-mood? Maybe you could come up with some more sentences please, that we can understand when to use it that way. Thanks in advance.

[DornenEngel]

okay. thanks a lot for the sentences. You really are a pillar of this comunity, crbratu!
I will look into it and solve the mystery.

[DornenEngel]

thanks for the answer. But to be honest, I do not really get it why ca needs to be there, but I will learn it by hard.