Breakdown of În cazul în care lipsește certificatul de înmatriculare, mașina este respinsă.
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În cazul în care means in the event that / in case / if it happens that. It is a more formal and bureaucratic-sounding expression than dacă, which is the normal everyday word for if.
So:
- În cazul în care lipsește certificatul... = In the event that the certificate is missing...
- Dacă lipsește certificatul... = If the certificate is missing...
Both are possible, but în cazul în care sounds especially natural in official instructions, regulations, and administrative language.
Lipsește is from the verb a lipsi. In this sentence, it means is missing or is absent.
So:
- lipsește certificatul = the certificate is missing
A useful thing to notice is that Romanian often uses a lipsi in a structure that feels a little different from English. Instead of saying something like they did not provide the certificate, Romanian can simply say the certificate is missing.
Here, certificatul is the thing that is absent.