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Lessons for romanian to english with audio this link brings you to lesson 1 and there are several...so click here.
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Dear romanian language – 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…
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measures and containers – more about them
Sticlă is a catch all for bottles in general. So if you’re unwell and need to go to the farmacie and buy one of those hot water bottle things to…
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gender & usage – something or ceva
ceva = something Even though ceva ends with an ‘a’ it is a neuter word -when you use an adjective with this you will always use the masculine singular form….
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a usca – to dry
a usca = to dry eu usuc tu usuci el, ea usucă noi uscăm voi uscați ei, ele usucă Share this…
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in the kitchen I – în bucărtărie
pots and pans tigaie = frying pan oală = cooking pot with small handles cratiță = cooking pot with long handle capac = lid Share this…
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temperatură = temperature
temperatură = temperature minima termică = minimum temperature maxima termică = maximum temperature temperatura corpului = 37C (98.6F) = human body temperature temperatură critică = critical temperature temperatură de aprindere…
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seasons or anotimpuri
When refering to a season of the year you use anotimpul – when refering to a season of sports or some other season use sezon. anotimpuri/anotimpul = the seasons of…
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measures & containers
o conservă, doua conserve = tin (s) o sticlă, doua sticle = bottle (s) o cutie, doua cutii = box (es) un borcan, doua borcane = jar (s) un pachet,…
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și = and or also
și = and (that is in most cases) It can also mean…also. și = also Here Iulia meets up with Ion – Romanian Iulia: Ce faci? Ion: Bine! Si tu?…
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differences – unde ești și de unde ești? (informal)
To anyone who is not just beginning this might seem obvious, but this blog highlights all kinds of situations and confusions that I have experienced. Maybe someone else has these…
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prepositions – a close look at pe
The preposition pe can sometimes mean something as a direct translation in english or not. As with many rules we often find exceptions Here is how „pe” was explained to…