. G1 Romanian grammar
Romanian is a Latin language thus it follows the grammar structure of Latin languages such as Italian, French or Spanish.
We have written several grammar lessons (all freely available):
- How to ask a question in Romanian: Interrogatives - Cine(Who), Ce(What)...
- Question in Romanian: Advanced Level - Pe cine, La ce
- Personal pronouns in Romanian
- New! Personal Romanian pronouns in Accusative
- Possessive pronouns in Romanian
- Romanian noun gender and number
- The two main auxiliary verbs "a fi" (to be) and "a avea" (to have) conjugated (this lesson is part of the Level I absolute beginner"
- The other important usual Romanian verbs conjugated: e.g. "a face" (to do), "a da" (to give)... (this lesson is part of the Level I absolute beginner"
- A stub about Verbs - Indicative Mood - Present Tense"
Our lesson abound in free audio samples of the Romanian words being studied.
Here is a sample: Eu sunt (I am) /jew sunt/.
We are planning to add more Romanian language grammar lessons dealing with:
- Masculine nouns (how to recognize them and how to guess the plural)
- Neuter nouns (how to recognize them and how to guess the plural)
- Romanian articles (definite and indefinite)
- Romanian pronouns
- Romanian verbs
Furthermore we'll add exercises for you to practice what you've learned.
Other Romanian grammar highlights: In certain cases the subject can be omitted
It is common, especially in spoken Romanian language, as well as from a grammatical point of view to leave out the subject. Let’s take this example where two friends are discussing:
“Am fost la o petrecere săptămâna trecută, a fost nemaipomenit. Maine seara merg la altă petrecere, mergi?”
“I went to a party last week, it was great. Tomorrow evening, I’m going to another party, are you coming along?”
“I went to a party last week, it was great. Tomorrow evening, I’m going to another party, are you coming along?”
In the above sentences the subject is missing because it is inferred from the form of the verb. In Romanian when one says “mergi” it can only be “you go” (where you refers to only one person/object, it cannot mean, "I go" or "He goes", because “I go” is "(eu) merg", and "he goes" is "(el) merge".
It is perfectly ok to say “Eu am fost” and to specify explicitly the subject “Eu” (translated as “I”), however in colloquial Romanian the subject tends to be left out.
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pleaseeeee add the otheir subjectss i need them a lot and thnx it was really very useful for me
More Romanian grammar lessons
Hi Amira,
We'll add more Romanian grammar lessons asap, we are working on it.
Many thanks for your patience.
Hi Amira,
Hi Amira,
Thank you for your patience.
I've just added the lesson on how to ask a question in Romanian
In 1-2 days I'll add exercises for you to practice asking questions in Romanian.
I'm now writing a new one on the same subject and then will continue with more lessons on Romanian grammar.
Please let me know if something is not clear in that lesson.
All the best and I hope you will enjoy the lesson.
have a question
how many tenses have in romanian language? if so, what are they? please explain clearly with examples.how do we distingish them and conjugate .
Romanian verbs tenses
Hi,
Romanian verbs have nine moods: Indicative, Subjunctive, Optative & Conditional and Presumptive and and four non-personal moods (infinitive, participle, gerund, supine). Most of these moods have two tenses (present and past); The indicative, has eight tenses (one present tense, four past tenses and three future tenses) .
Only a few of them are used on a daily basis.
I will need to create a dedicated lesson on verbs where you could see all the Romanian moods and tenses.
Happy to help!
Thanks, request, and suggestion
Bună :) firstly, thank you so much for this sute,wits absolutely incredible that such grwat information is available for free. It is greatly appreciated. I would love to have more grammar lessons about tenses, genders, verbs and conjugations, etc.
I REALLY hope you don't mind this, but I think the way the admin organised and structured the lessons on this site is great as it runs you through vocabulary and grammar in a good and natural learning curve.
Thank you again for all you've done. <3
Is there lessons about pronouns
It is really beautiful site and very clear explaining. I would appreciate if there is a lesson talking about peonouns and reflecție ones. Such exemple "I do something for him.... I do something for her.... I give them a book ...etc
Thank you very much
Hi,
Hi,
With regards to the Romanian pronouns so far I created the lesson on the Romanian personal pronouns
in Nominative https://www.learnro.com/personal-pronouns-romanian
and in Accusative https://www.learnro.com/personal-pronouns-accusative-romanian (I still need to add some more examples in this lesson and to finish this lesson).
I guess you mean the Romanian reflexive pronouns, on this topic I do not have a lesson yet.
If you need some explanations I could provide them here, as it will take me a bit of time to create a new lesson.
Hi
Hi
Thank you very much for your quick replying . I appreciate if you could find time to explain them here. Because really I read many sources and I got confused :)
Thank you very much for your precious time
I will start working on a
I will start working on a lesson on the reflexive pronouns and the Romanian reflexive verbs. It will take me a bit of time, please bare with me.
I'm happy to help!
Cooperation
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Thank you Eugenia for your
Thank you Eugenia for your kind offer and your kind words.
I will write you an email to your email address.
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