Stăm lângă foc.

to stay

Breakdown of Stăm lângă foc.

• lângă: near
• focul: fire

Questions & Answers about Stăm lângă foc.

What does stăm mean exactly?

Stăm is the 1st person plural present form of a sta.

In Romanian, a sta is a very flexible verb. Depending on context, it can mean:

• to stay
• to sit
• to stand
• to remain
• sometimes simply to be somewhere

So Stăm lângă foc can be understood as:

• We stay by the fire
• We are by the fire
• We’re sitting by the fire

The exact English translation depends on the situation.

Why isn’t there a word for we in the sentence?

Romanian often drops the subject pronoun when it is already clear from the verb ending.

Here, stăm already means we stay / we are staying, so noi (we) is not necessary.

You could say:

• Noi stăm lângă foc.

But this usually adds emphasis, like:

• We are the ones staying by the fire.

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