Participantul așteaptă la linia de start.

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Breakdown of Participantul așteaptă la linia de start.

• a aștepta: to wait
• linia de start: the starting line
• participantul: the participant

Questions & Answers about Participantul așteaptă la linia de start.

Why does participantul end in -ul?

In Romanian, the definite article is usually attached to the end of the noun, not written as a separate word like English the.

So:

• participant = a participant
• participantul = the participant

This is very common in Romanian:

• băiat = boy
• băiatul = the boy

So participantul simply means the participant.

Why is it linia and not linie?

The base noun is linie = line.

When it becomes definite, Romanian adds the definite article to the end and sometimes the form changes slightly:

• linie = a line
• linia = the line

So in linia de start, linia means the line.

This is a normal feminine noun pattern in Romanian.

What exactly does așteaptă mean here?