Bărbatul scapă de ploaie.

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Breakdown of Bărbatul scapă de ploaie.

• ploaia: the rain
• bărbatul: the man
• a scăpa: to escape

Questions & Answers about Bărbatul scapă de ploaie.

What does -ul in bărbatul mean?

-ul is the definite article attached to the end of the noun. So:

• bărbat = man
• bărbatul = the man

Romanian usually puts the at the end of the noun instead of using a separate word like English does.

Why is the article attached to the noun instead of being a separate word?

That is just how Romanian normally works. The definite article is an enclitic article, meaning it gets added to the end of the noun.

For example:

• bărbat = a man / man
• bărbatul = the man
• femeie = woman
• femeia = the woman

So in this sentence, bărbatul already includes the idea of the.

What form is scapă?

Scapă is the 3rd person singular present tense of the verb a scăpa.

That means it can mean:

• he escapes
• she escapes
• it escapes

In this sentence, because the subject is bărbatul, it means the man escapes.

Why isn’t there a subject pronoun like el for he?