"A shark and a seal."

Translation: Un rechin și o focă.

[Victoria684052]

I am so confused as when to use 'un' and when to use 'o'...can somebody please clarify?

[coto.i]

Different from English, in Romanian the nouns have genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. We find the gender by counting the noun:

• MASCULINE: UN rechin - DOI rechini --- (one shark - two sharks)

• FEMININE: O focă - DOUĂ foci --- (one seal - two seals)

• NEUTER: UN avion - DOUĂ avioane --- (one plane - two planes)

"un" is the indefinite article for masculine and neuter nouns.

"o" is the indefinite article for feminine nouns.