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

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.

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