Citind CV-ul, recrutorul verifică recomandarea.

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Breakdown of Citind CV-ul, recrutorul verifică recomandarea.

• a verifica: to check
• CV-ul: the CV; résumé
• recomandarea: the reference; recommendation

Questions & Answers about Citind CV-ul, recrutorul verifică recomandarea.

What does citind mean here, and what verb form is it?

Citind is the Romanian gerunziu form of a citi, meaning reading or while reading.

In this sentence, it introduces a secondary action happening at the same time as the main action:

Citind CV-ul, recrutorul verifică recomandarea
= While reading the CV, the recruiter checks the recommendation

So citind does not carry tense by itself. The main verb verifică gives the sentence its tense.

Who is doing the reading in this sentence?

The person doing the reading is recrutorul.

In Romanian, a gerunziu phrase like citind CV-ul normally has the same subject as the main verb. So the sentence means that the recruiter is both:

• reading the CV
• checking the recommendation

This is an important point. Romanian usually expects the subject of citind to match the subject of verifică.

Why is CV-ul written with a hyphen?

Because CV is an abbreviation, and Romanian often adds the definite article with a hyphen in this kind of case.

• CV = CV, résumé
• CV-ul = the CV

Romanian normally puts the definite article at the end of the noun, not as a separate word. With abbreviations or foreign-looking forms, the hyphen makes the structure clearer.

So:

• un CV = a CV
• CV-ul = the CV