Primăria eliberează autorizația de funcționare.

City hall issues the operating permit.

Breakdown of Primăria eliberează autorizația de funcționare.

• autorizația de funcționare: the operating permit
• primăria: the city hall; municipality
• a elibera: to issue; release

Questions & Answers about Primăria eliberează autorizația de funcționare.

What exactly does primăria mean here? Is it the building or the institution?

In this sentence, primăria usually means the town hall / city hall as an institution, not just the physical building.

So it can refer to:

• the municipal administration
• the local authority
• sometimes, by extension, the town hall building

In a sentence about issuing permits, it most naturally means the local government office.

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Why does primărie become primăria?

Because Romanian often puts the definite article at the end of the noun, not before it like English the.

• primărie = a town hall / city hall
• primăria = the town hall / city hall

This is very common in Romanian. The definite article is attached to the noun:

• casă = house
• casa = the house

So primăria is simply the definite form of primărie.

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