Am verificat fișierul, dar nu l-am trimis imediat.

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Breakdown of Am verificat fișierul, dar nu l-am trimis imediat.

• dar: but
• imediat: immediately
• îl: it

Questions & Answers about Am verificat fișierul, dar nu l-am trimis imediat.

Why does the sentence use am verificat instead of one past-tense verb form?

Am verificat is the Romanian compound past (perfectul compus), which is very common in everyday speech.

It is built with:

• the auxiliary a avea in the present tense: am = I have
• the past participle: verificat = checked/verified

So literally it looks like I have checked, but in normal usage it often matches English I checked.

The same pattern appears later in:

• l-am trimis = I sent it / I have sent it

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Why is fișierul written with -ul at the end?

The -ul is the definite article attached to the noun.

So:

• fișier = a file
• fișierul = the file

Romanian usually puts the definite article at the end of the noun, unlike English, which uses a separate word (the).

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What does dar mean?