"Mâine trebuie să-ți dau farfuriile înapoi."

Translation: Tomorrow I must give you the plates back.

[olb38]

What is the difference between "ti" and "iti"?

[Riccardo679756]

I think "îți" is reflexive, meaning yourself i.e. "you do this to yourself". But I am also confused because I saw "ti", "te", "t-" in different contexts and I never know the right one...

[ValkadnurV]

"-ti" is "iti" in it's short form (i.e "iti" becomes "-ti" when preceded by a vowel (a,ǎ,â,e,i,o,u))

"iti" asks for the dative case , while "te" asks for acusative (i.e "te" "Eu (pe tine) te conduc" (i'm guiding you) asks for direct complement( pe cine conduc? --> pe tine te (conduc)), a syntactic function that asks for acusative, while "(Eu) Tie iti dau farfuriile" asks for indirect complement (cui dau farfuriile? --> Tie iti (dau farfuriile)), a syntactic function thay asks for dative)

[HannuKoson]

There is something really weird with this course. Dozens and dozens of pages where people are discussing variety of problems concerning ENGLISH instead of Romanian that we are studying. Simply a linguistic and pedagogical disaster.

[odt5]

Wow, înapoi really works like the English "back" in this context? Is that a borrowed usage from English or something?

[Ser229339]

You're right, here "înapoi"= "back"...But I'm sure that this isn't "a borrowed usage from English".

[DocPummello]

Am i the only one who thinks să-ți sounds like să ții which means to hold?

[MikeBaker874500]

why not ”I must give your plates back”?

[ValkadnurV]

Because of "Maine" (Tommorow) that appears at the beggining of the sentence

[Lng52-._]

Better grammar would be, "Tomorrow, I must give the plates back to you".
Would the translation be: "Mâine, trebuie să vă dau farfuriile înapoi"?