Odată ce citim lista ingredientelor, alegem recipientul.

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Breakdown of Odată ce citim lista ingredientelor, alegem recipientul.

• a alege: to choose
• lista ingredientelor: the ingredient list
• recipientul: the container

Questions & Answers about Odată ce citim lista ingredientelor, alegem recipientul.

What does odată ce mean here?

Here, odată ce means once or as soon as. It introduces the idea that one action happens after another is completed:

• Odată ce citim lista ingredientelor, alegem recipientul.
• Once we read the list of ingredients, we choose the container.

In other contexts, odată ce can also mean something like since or given that, but in this sentence it has a time meaning.

Why are citim and alegem both in the present tense?

Romanian often uses the present tense in sentences that express a general rule, instruction, or sequence of actions.

So citim = we read and alegem = we choose, both in the present tense, even if English might sometimes use something like once we have read... we choose... or after reading... we choose...

This Romanian sentence sounds natural as a general procedure:

• first we read
• then we choose

What person and number are citim and alegem?