Coborârea începe după vârf.

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Breakdown of Coborârea începe după vârf.

• a începe: to start
• coborârea: the descent
• vârful: the summit; peak

Questions & Answers about Coborârea începe după vârf.

What exactly is coborârea in this sentence?

Coborârea is a noun, not a verb. It means the descent.

It comes from the base noun coborâre = descent / going down, which is related to the verb a coborî = to go down / to descend.

So the sentence is built around:

• coborârea = the descent
• începe = begins

That makes coborârea the subject of the sentence.

Why does coborârea have -a at the end?

That -a is the definite article attached to the noun.

Romanian usually puts the at the end of the noun instead of before it.

So:

• coborâre = a descent / descent
• coborârea = the descent

This is very normal in Romanian. Compare:

• casă = house
• casa = the house

With nouns like coborâre, the definite form becomes coborârea.

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