Durerea de dinți apare împreună cu umflătura.

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Breakdown of Durerea de dinți apare împreună cu umflătura.

• împreună: together
• a apărea: to appear
• durerea de dinți: the toothache

Questions & Answers about Durerea de dinți apare împreună cu umflătura.

Why is it durerea and not durere?

Because -a at the end is the definite article attached to the noun.

• durere = pain
• durerea = the pain

Romanian usually puts the definite article at the end of the noun, unlike English, which uses a separate word like the.

So durerea de dinți literally means the tooth pain or more naturally the toothache.

Why does Romanian say de dinți?

In Romanian, toothache is commonly expressed as durere de dinți, literally pain of teeth or pain related to teeth.

Here, de links the type of pain to what it concerns:

• durere de cap = headache
• durere de spate = back pain
• durere de dinți = toothache

So de here is part of a very common pattern for naming kinds of pain.

Why is dinți plural? Why not dinte?