Poliția descoperă baza.

the police

Breakdown of Poliția descoperă baza.

• baza: the base
• a descoperi: to discover

Questions & Answers about Poliția descoperă baza.

Why does poliția end in -a?

Because Romanian usually puts the definite article at the end of the noun instead of using a separate word like the.

So:

• poliție = police / police force
• poliția = the police

In this sentence, poliția is the subject: the police discover(s) the base.

It is a feminine singular noun in form.

How do you pronounce poliția?

A good approximation is po-lee-TSEE-a.

A few useful points:

• ț is pronounced ts, like in cats
• ia at the end is usually pronounced as two syllables: i-a
• the stress is on ți: po-li-ȚI-a

So poliția is roughly po-li-TSEE-a.

What does descoperă mean grammatically?

Descoperă is the 3rd person singular present tense form of the verb a descoperi, meaning to discover.

So it can mean:

• discovers
• is discovering

depending on context.

Here it agrees with the singular subject poliția.

Related forms:

• eu descopăr = I discover
• tu descoperi = you discover
• el/ea descoperă = he/she discovers