Matematica este interesantă pentru fratele meu.

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Breakdown of Matematica este interesantă pentru fratele meu.

• a fi: to be
• meu: my
• interesant: interesting

Questions & Answers about Matematica este interesantă pentru fratele meu.

Why is Matematica capitalized? Is “mathematics” normally written with a capital letter in Romanian?

It’s capitalized here only because it is the first word of the sentence.

In Romanian, names of school subjects like matematică, istorie, biologie are normally written with a lowercase initial, unlike English where Math or Biology can sometimes be capitalized. So:

• Matematica este interesantă. – capital M only because it starts the sentence
• Îmi place matematica. – lowercase m in the middle of a sentence

Why isn’t there a separate word for “the” before matematica?

Romanian usually puts the definite article at the end of the noun, as a suffix, not as a separate word like English the.

• matematică = mathematics / math (in general; “mathematics” without specifying)
• matematica = the mathematics / math (the subject, more specific)

So matematica literally corresponds to “the mathematics” or just “math” in normal English. There is no separate word for the because it is built into -a at the end.

What is the difference between matematică and matematica?