Contractul individual de muncă începe luni.

The individual employment contract starts on Monday.

Breakdown of Contractul individual de muncă începe luni.

• luni: Monday
• a începe: to start
• contractul individual de muncă: the individual employment contract

Questions & Answers about Contractul individual de muncă începe luni.

Why is it contractul and not a separate word for the contract?

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

• contract = contract / a contract
• contractul = the contract

So contractul individual de muncă means the individual employment contract.

A useful extra detail: contract is a neuter noun in Romanian, and neuter nouns behave like masculine in the singular, which is why the definite ending here is -ul.

Why is individual after contractul instead of before it?

In Romanian, adjectives often come after the noun.

So:

• contract individual = individual contract
• contractul individual = the individual contract

This is the normal, unmarked word order. English usually puts adjectives before the noun, but Romanian often places them after it.

Also, the adjective agrees with the noun. Here individual is the masculine/neuter singular form, matching contractul.

What does de muncă mean here?