Questions & Answers about La ședință mai vine și Ana.
Why is the sentence ordered La ședință mai vine și Ana, instead of something more like Ana vine și la ședință?
Romanian word order is much more flexible than English word order.
In this sentence, La ședință is placed first to set the scene: as for the meeting / to the meeting. Then the important new piece of information comes later: și Ana.
So the structure is roughly:
- La ședință = to/at the meeting
- mai vine = is also coming
- și Ana = Ana too / Ana as well
Putting Ana at the end gives it extra focus. It is a very natural Romanian way to say something like:
- Ana is coming to the meeting too.
- Also Ana is coming to the meeting.
- Ana is another person who is coming to the meeting.
Romanian could also use other word orders, but they would change the emphasis slightly.
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