Questions & Answers about Actul de identitate și dovada adresei sunt pe masă.
Romanian has a definite article attached to the end of the noun, unlike English.
- act = document / act
- actul = the document
So actul de identitate means the identity document / the ID.
This attached ending is very common in Romanian:
- băiat = boy → băiatul = the boy
- carte = book → cartea = the book
In this sentence, actul means a specific document, not just any document.
De identitate means of identity and functions like identity in English.
So:
- act = document
- act de identitate = identity document
- actul de identitate = the identity document / the ID
Romanian often uses de where English uses a noun directly as an adjective-like modifier.
Compare:
- carte de vizită = business card
- sală de clasă = classroom
So act de identitate is a fixed expression.