"Voi fetelor, v-ați schimbat."

Translation: You girls changed.

[cheerfulcharlie]

They're busting out the "vocative" case on us now?! Why are the course creators so angry at us now?

:)

[MikeBaker874500]

I think ”Girls, you have changed” is a much better translation, but not accepted.

[Schattenparker]

I find the translation "You girls have changed". So is fetelor here genetive in the sense of "You of the girls" ?

[Luchtmens]

Nope, fetelor is vocative here.

Plural vocative can take the definite genitive-dative plural form (the -lor one) of the noun.

And the proper punctuation is actually: Voi, fetelor, v-aţi schimbat (the noun in vocative has to be separated from the rest of the sentence by commas).

[Schattenparker]

Thank you, with that extra comma I probably could have figured it out myself. Did some Latin for a reason, about 35 years ago :-)

[Deisi92]

How did you highlight that comma? :D

[-BigWayne19-]

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Big 31 mar 19