Bunica mă așteaptă în piață acum.

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Breakdown of Bunica mă așteaptă în piață acum.

• mă: me
• bunica: the grandma
• a aștepta: to wait

Questions & Answers about Bunica mă așteaptă în piață acum.

Why is it bunica and not bunică?

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.

Why doesn’t it say bunica mea?

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.

What does mă mean?