Benefits of knowing 2 or more languages is a post from: my blog - limbaromana.yoyoro.net

VIITOR

Option 1
The popular form (once you have memorized the conjugated verbs) is to put ‘o sa’ in front of the conjugated form of the verb. Following is an example -

Prezent – Viitor Popular
eu beau/I drink – o să beau/I will drink
tu bei/you drink – o să bei/you will drink
el/ea bea/he she it drinks – o să bea/he she it will drink
noi bem/we drink – o să bem/we will drink
voi beţi (dvs)/you drink – o să beţi/you will drink
ei/ele beau/they drink – o să bea/they will drink

Option 2
Another way is to use the infinitive form with a prefix that corresponds to the pronoun. Memorize the following and attach the infinitive form. It is not necessary when speaking to say aloud both the pronoun and the future indicator. Following an example -

Viitor
(eu) voi bea – I will drink
(tu) vei bea – you will drink
(el/ea) va bea – he she it will drink
(noi) vom bea – we will drink
(voi) veţi bea – you (dvs) will drink
(ei/ele) vor bea – they will drink

verb tense – the future – viitor is a post from: my blog - limbaromana.yoyoro.net

Hellos

Bună ziua! – general purpose greeting meaning hello, good afternoon, good day.
Bună dimineața! – good morning (b4 1030)
Bună seara! – good evening (after 19)
Să trăiți! – used only to greet a ‘high’ official

Goodbyes

La revedere! – goodbye
Noapte bună! – good night (after 22)
Sanatate – to your health
Ai grijă, la revedere! – Take care, bye

INFORMAL

Hellos & Goodbyes

Servus – for hello and goodbye – it’s a transylvania thang
Ciao, halo, buna, salut, noroc – hello
Pa, ciao, pa pa – goodbye

Pe curînd – see you soon

bineţe-greetings-general-hello-and-goodbye is a post from: my blog - limbaromana.yoyoro.net

soărele apune – the sun sets – apus (vest) sau asfinţit – asfinţit derivitive of a sfinți – to bless a home
soărele răsare – the sun rises – răsărit (est)

la rasărit – use la with past participle for the moment that this happens

Vocabulary – the sun is a post from: my blog - limbaromana.yoyoro.net

about people
(f) drăguţă, iubita, amantă, gagică
(m) – draguț, iubit, amant

amant = lover

a avea o/un ….fill in the blank with one of the options above. = to have a……

terms of endearment
scump, scumpă, dragul meu, draga mea, iubitul meu, iubita mea, iubi

substantiv
dragoste = love
iubire = love

verbe
a fi îndrăgostit de – to be in love with
a iubi – to love
a face dragoste – to make love
a-i plăcea – to like/love * see note below about usage

In english it is not always distinguished the difference with like and love, love is used many times in an expression that does not necessarily seperate…for instance when you return from a visit in another city and express your excitement and extreme pleasure – you might say in english ”I loved Paris.” In romanian you would make a distinction and say instead ”Mi-a placut Paris foarte mult.”

marriage/wedding stuff
nemăritate = not married
mărită – marrying/married but refers specifically to women
insoara – marrying/married but refers specifically to men
mireasă – bride, miresei – genitiv
mire – groom, mirele cu articol

in describing the movie…..

la sfârsitul primei parți sau la sfârsitul parți întoi – in the end of the first part
ambele, ambii – alt form of amindoua, amindoi – both
se țin de măna – they’re holding hands
fericirea – happiness, nefericirea – unhappiness
a rămas – to remain
liniste – silence, a tăcea – to be silent
prins = caught

pe de o parte, pe de alte parte = on one hand….on the other….
disparut pe nesimțite = leaves quiet/sneak away
arunca o privire = look at someone with a negative connotation/sense – a arunca = to throw

More to come on the subject of love. If you have a chance somehow to see this film, it is quite lovely – so do try!

vocabulary – dragoste, iubire is a post from: my blog - limbaromana.yoyoro.net

You make me feel stupid sometimes. I know you didn’t ask me to learn you. Some rednecks in the backwoods, when they want to teach their children a lesson with a beating, precede the beating by saying ‘I’ll learn you!’ Still I say ‘I’ll learn you!’ but you don’t seem to care. You’re not afraid of the beating that I’ll give you.

I’m not usually one for victim mentality but, secretly I suspect that you must snicker and laugh at me behind my back. Clearly you are to blame for my inability now to complete sentences and spell correctly in my mother tongue. Our relationship confuses me so. I want to be with you 24/7.

Since I have been studying you, having attempted to speak your words, now I can no longer speak clearly or spell words correctly in either language.

Oh romanian language who demands my attention. Don’t you know that I have attention deficit disorder?

Oh romanian language your prepositions have many meanings. Don’t you know that I’m a simple person and this confuses me?

Your pronouns confuse me too. Yes, I know what you mean and still I want to be with you always. If i’m not careful with you, you can change the meaning of an entire sentence!

Your double entendre – I don’t mean to offend. But alas there have been times that I have. Yes, when describing a dogs paw – I had mistaken this word and well I am embarassed to admit the word that was spoken from my lips and it wasn’t only to God’s ears. Why do some days I love you so and some days you frustrate me?

When the sounds of each syllable resound in my ears – I think of music – I hear you and you are a symphony. Your sweet sounds spoken correctly are like drops of rain falling softly on water – filling me up and then rushing past me.

Oh romanian language…someday ‘I’ll learn you!’

with love always from your faithful servant,

Amy

is a post from: my blog - limbaromana.yoyoro.net

Enjoy! By the way, future tense and past tense vids coming in the next days.

A avea – to have (present tense video) is a post from: my blog - limbaromana.yoyoro.net

First links…

Adopt a dog, find one here at NUCA.  The dog in the picture is Kiki and she was adopted through NUCA.
Learn more about training and caring for your dog at Animalutul.  This site is in romanian has many articles for intermediate and advanced learners.

Now vocabulary…

cîine/câine (s) un cîine
cîini/câini (p) niște cîini

cățel (s/m), cătelușul (s/art.), cătelusă/e (fs/p)

pui = puppy

stăpân/(ă) = master/owner

rasă = breed

zgardă = collar

lesă = leash

jucărie = toy

os/oase = bone(s)

plimbare = walk

cușcă = cage/carrier

dresaj = training

a se plimba = to walk

a se joaca = to play

a fuga = to run

a musca = to bite

a mângâia = to pet an animal

a roade = to eat, gnaw at something

a latra = to bark

a adopta = to adopt

haită = pack/band of dogs or the like

fioros = fierce

cîine vagabond = street dog

cîini vagabonzi = street dogs

cîine de casă = a dog that has a home with a master

vocabulary – dogs, câini is a post from: my blog - limbaromana.yoyoro.net

ușa = door

Unfortunately there is a lot of anti-american sentiment in some countries (not completely unwarranted.) This is not the case here in romania (fortunately for me.) In fact, it seems that most romanians really like the US. However, when I first came to visit here in May of 2005, I did not know romanians opinions about the US or about any subject in general for that matter. Well, one time when travelling to the train station in a taxi with my friend Bogdan, I noticed a sign in the taxi in BOLD CAPITAL LETTERS, it read –

NU TRÂNTIȚI UȘA

Well I assumed the worst, thinking that maybe the driver did not want to transport americans. So I sat quietly in the back and didn’t speak. Later I asked my friend about this and laughter resounded. He siad that he had wondered why I was quiet I think this is the first word in romanian outside of basic greetings that I learned and certainly it is one that I will never forget.

a trânti (uşa) = to slam a door (esc verb)

SUA = USA

ușa does not = USA is a post from: my blog - limbaromana.yoyoro.net

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