Questions & Answers about Bunica mă așteaptă în piață acum.
Bunică is the basic dictionary form, meaning grandmother / grandma.
Bunica is the definite form, with the Romanian definite article attached to the end of the noun. So literally it is the grandmother.
Romanian often works like this:
- bunică = grandmother / a grandmother
- bunica = the grandmother / grandma
With family words, Romanian very often uses the definite form where English may simply say Grandma or my grandma, depending on context.
Romanian often leaves out the possessive if it is obvious from context. So bunica can naturally mean grandma or my grandma when the speaker’s family relationship is understood.
If you want to be fully explicit, you can say:
- bunica mea = my grandma
But in many everyday sentences, just bunica sounds perfectly natural.
Mă means me.
It is an unstressed object pronoun (often called a clitic), and in Romanian these pronouns usually come before the verb:
- mă așteaptă = is waiting for me
So even though the Romanian word order looks a bit like me waits, the real meaning is waits for me.