Questions & Answers about Scaunul de lângă ușă este liber.
Why does scaunul end in -ul?
Because Romanian usually puts the definite article at the end of the noun, not before it like English does.
- scaun = chair
- scaunul = the chair
So Scaunul means the chair.
This is very common in Romanian:
- băiat = boy
- băiatul = the boy
- masă = table
- masa = the table
What does de lângă mean here?
Here, de lângă means something like by, next to, or near.
So:
- de lângă ușă = by the door / next to the door
In this sentence, it identifies which chair we are talking about: the one near the door.
A helpful way to think about it is:
- scaunul de lângă ușă = the chair that is near the door
Why is there a de before lângă? Doesn’t lângă already mean near?