Eu prefer supa, pentru că desertul este prea dulce.

I prefer the soup because the dessert is too sweet.

Breakdown of Eu prefer supa, pentru că desertul este prea dulce.

• a fi: to be
• eu: I
• pentru că: because
• supa: the soup
• desertul: the dessert
• dulce: sweet
• a prefera: to prefer
• prea: too

Questions & Answers about Eu prefer supa, pentru că desertul este prea dulce.

Why does the sentence start with Eu? Is it mandatory to include the subject pronoun?

In Romanian you can include or omit subject pronouns freely because the verb ending already tells you who’s doing the action.

• Eu prefer supă is perfectly correct and sounds a bit more emphatic (“I, personally, prefer soup”).
• You could also say Prefer supă, pentru că … and it would be normal, especially in casual speech.

Why is there no article before supă? Could I say o supă instead?

Here supă is used in a general, uncountable sense: “I prefer (some) soup,” meaning soup as a category.

• If you want to talk about one specific soup, use the indefinite article o: Eu prefer o supă, “I prefer a soup.”
• To express preference in general, Romanian drops the article.

Why is desertul written with the suffix -ul?

Romanian marks the definite article as a suffix on nouns.

• For masculine nouns (like desert), the singular definite article is -ul: desert → desertul (“the dessert”).
• Here you’re referring to a specific dessert (the one you know or have just had), so it must be desertul.

In Eu prefer supă, why is the verb prefer and not preferă?

Romanian verbs change their endings by person:

• prefer is the 1st person singular (I prefer).
• preferă is the 3rd person singular (he/she prefers).
  Since the subject is eu (“I”), you use prefer.

What’s the role of pentru că? Can I use că alone to mean “because”?

• pentru că is the standard way to say “because” when giving a reason.
• că alone usually means “that” (introducing a subordinate clause of content), not “because.”
  You can also use synonyms like deoarece or căci for “because,” but pentru că is by far the most common.

Why is there a comma before pentru că?

In Romanian punctuation you separate the main clause from a subordinate clause of cause with a comma.
Here pentru că desertul este prea dulce is the subordinate clause explaining why you prefer soup, so you place a comma before pentru că.

What’s the difference between prea dulce and foarte dulce?

• prea means “too”, indicating an excessive degree: prea dulce = “too sweet” (I don’t like it).
• foarte means “very”, indicating a high degree but without the negative “excess” connotation: foarte dulce = “very sweet” (could be fine).

Can I replace este with e in desertul este prea dulce?

Yes. In colloquial speech and even in many writings you’ll see the contraction e used instead of este:

• desertul e prea dulce
  Both are understood; este is simply the full, more formal form.

Can I invert the clauses? If I start with pentru că…, where does the comma go?

Absolutely. You can say:
Pentru că desertul este prea dulce, eu prefer supă.
The comma then follows the subordinate clause, just as in English when a dependent clause comes first.

Do I need to worry about Romanian diacritics here? Should it be supă and că?

Yes, standard Romanian spelling uses five diacritics: ă, â, î, ș, ț.

• The correct forms are supă (not supa) and că (not ca, which would be “as”).
  Leaving them out can cause misunderstandings, so it’s best to include them once you can.