Questions & Answers about O să scriu o poezie scurtă diseară.
What does O să mean, and how does it form the future tense?
O să is the most common spoken future marker in Romanian. It consists of o + să followed by the verb in the subjunctive mood (which often looks the same as the present indicative). It’s equivalent to will in English, marking an action that will happen.
Why is the verb scriu in this form? Is it present tense or something else?
After o să, Romanian uses the subjunctive mood. For the verb a scrie (to write), the first person singular subjunctive form is scriu. It looks identical to the present indicative, but the presence of o să signals that it’s future subjunctive, not present simple.
Could I say Voi scrie o poezie scurtă diseară instead? What’s the difference?
Yes. Voi scrie is the simple (synthetic) future tense and expresses the same idea. It’s more formal or literary, while o să scriu is the colloquial or spoken form of the future. Both are correct; o să scriu is simply more common in everyday conversation.
Why do we have an o before poezie, and why is scurtă placed after the noun?