Dacă nu găsesc nicio chitanță în portofel, merg din nou la poștă și întreb.

Romanian often drops subject pronouns because the verb ending already tells you who is doing the action.

In this sentence, găsesc, merg, and întreb all show 1st person singular, so eu is not necessary.

You would add eu mainly for emphasis or contrast, for example:

• Eu merg, nu el = I am going, not him

All three are present tense, 1st person singular forms:

• găsesc ← a găsi = to find
• merg ← a merge = to go
• întreb ← a întreba = to ask

A useful detail: a merge is irregular in the present tense:

• eu merg
• tu mergi
• el/ea merge
• noi mergem
• voi mergeți
• ei/ele merg

So merg is just the normal correct form.

Yes, by English logic it looks like a double negative, but in Romanian this is normal and correct. Romanian uses negative concord.

So:

• nu găsesc nicio chitanță

means:

• I don’t find any receipt
• or I find no receipt

Other common examples:

• Nu văd nimic = I don’t see anything
• Nu am niciun ban = I don’t have any money

In standard Romanian, you normally need both parts.

Because chitanță is a feminine singular noun.

Romanian negative determiners agree with the noun:

• niciun
  • masculine/neuter singular
• nicio
  • feminine singular

So:

• niciun plic = no envelope
• nicio chitanță = no receipt

Since chitanță is feminine, nicio is the right form.

In standard Romanian, nicio is written as one word when it means no / not any before a noun.

So here:

• nicio chitanță = no receipt / any receipt

The spelling nici o is reserved for special emphatic cases where the meaning is closer to not even one. For a learner, the safest rule is:

• use nicio in sentences like this one

Din nou means again, once again, or anew.

So:

• merg din nou la poștă = I go to the post office again

It is a neutral, very common expression.

A near-synonym is iarăși, but din nou is often the clearest and most neutral choice.

Be careful with iar: it often means and / but / whereas, so it is not a direct replacement here.

Because Romanian often uses the present tense in this kind of conditional sentence where English uses present + will.

So:

• Dacă nu găsesc..., merg... și întreb

can naturally mean:

• If I don’t find..., I’ll go... and ask

This present tense can sound:

• immediate
• planned
• habitual

So the Romanian sentence is perfectly normal.

Yes.

These are all possible, with slightly different style:

• merg = present used with future meaning; very natural
• o să merg = very common spoken future
• voi merge = explicit future; a bit more formal or deliberate

So these are fine too:

• Dacă nu găsesc nicio chitanță în portofel, o să merg din nou la poștă și o să întreb.
• Dacă nu găsesc nicio chitanță în portofel, voi merge din nou la poștă și voi întreba.

In the dacă clause, găsesc in the present is still the normal choice.

Because Romanian often uses the noun without the definite article after certain prepositions when talking about institutions or common destinations.

So these are very natural:

• la școală
• la bancă
• la piață
• la poștă

Here, la poștă means to the post office or at the post office.

La poșta usually sounds incomplete unless there is some further specification or a very specific context, for example:

• la poșta din centru = at the post office downtown

Romanian often leaves out the object when it is clear from context.

So și întreb can mean things like:

• and ask there
• and ask about it
• and make an inquiry

The full idea is understood from the situation.

If you want to be more explicit, you could say:

• și întreb la ghișeu
• și întreb un angajat
• și întreb dacă au găsit chitanța

Because în shows location inside something, while din shows movement out of something or source.

Here the idea is:

• the receipt might be inside the wallet

So:

• în portofel = in the wallet

Compare:

• Scot chitanța din portofel = I take the receipt out of the wallet

The main ones here are:

• ă = a short neutral vowel, similar to the last vowel in sofa
• ș = sh as in ship
• ț = ts as in cats
• î = a sound English does not really have; say a very short, tight vowel produced deeper in the mouth

Useful word notes:

• Dacă: stress on the first syllable
• găsesc: stress on the second syllable
• chitanță: chi here sounds like ki, not English ch
• poștă: the poș part sounds like posh
• întreb: stress on the second syllable

Because the first part is a conditional subordinate clause introduced by dacă, and Romanian normally separates it from the main clause with a comma when it comes first.

So:

• Dacă nu găsesc nicio chitanță în portofel, merg din nou la poștă și întreb.

This is similar to English:

• If I don’t find a receipt in my wallet, I go back to the post office and ask.

If the main clause came first, the comma is often omitted:

• Merg din nou la poștă și întreb dacă nu găsesc nicio chitanță în portofel.

Yes.

Because Romanian uses the present tense here, the sentence can be understood in two ways depending on context:

• one future situation: If I don’t find a receipt, I’ll go back and ask
• a repeated pattern: Whenever I don’t find a receipt in my wallet, I go back to the post office and ask

So the sentence is flexible. Context tells you which meaning is intended.