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Why is it doamna and not doamnă?
Because Romanian usually puts the definite article at the end of the noun.
- doamnă = a lady / a woman / madam
- doamna = the lady / the woman
So in this sentence, doamna is the definite form.
This is very common in Romanian:
- fată → fata = the girl
- casă → casa = the house
- doamnă → doamna = the lady
What grammatical form is doamna here?
Here, doamna is:
- singular
- feminine
- definite
- the subject of the sentence
In other words, it is the noun doing the role of the lady in The lady is here.
In this sentence, it is in the normal subject form, which learners often think of as the nominative.
How do you pronounce Doamna?