Questions & Answers about Pisica scapă din cutie.
Why is it pisica and not pisică?
Pisică means a cat or just cat as a dictionary form.
Pisica means the cat. Romanian usually puts the definite article at the end of the noun instead of using a separate word like English the.
So:
- pisică = a cat
- pisica = the cat
That is why the sentence uses pisica: it is talking about the cat, not just any cat.
What form is scapă?
Scapă is the 3rd person singular present tense of the verb a scăpa.
Here it agrees with pisica, which is singular:
- eu scap = I escape / I get out
- tu scapi = you escape
- el/ea scapă = he/she/it escapes
So pisica scapă means the cat escapes / is escaping / gets out.
Can scapă mean both escapes and is escaping?