Ana focalizează obiectivul pe peisaj.

Ana

Breakdown of Ana focalizează obiectivul pe peisaj.

• pe: on
• obiectivul: the camera lens
• peisajul: the landscape; scenery

Questions & Answers about Ana focalizează obiectivul pe peisaj.

What form is focalizează, and does it mean focuses or is focusing?

Focalizează is the 3rd-person singular present form of a focaliza (to focus).

Because the subject is Ana, the sentence means:

• Ana focuses...
• or Ana is focusing...

Romanian present tense often covers both the simple present and the present continuous, so the exact English translation depends on context.

Does obiectivul mean objective here?

In this sentence, obiectivul means the lens (especially a camera lens), not objective in the English sense of goal.

Romanian obiectiv can mean different things depending on context, including:

• lens
• objective
• sometimes objective point/target

Here, because of focalizează and pe peisaj, the photographic meaning lens is the natural one.

Why does obiectivul end in -ul?

The ending -ul is the Romanian definite article, attached to the end of the noun.

So:

• obiectiv = a lens / lens
• obiectivul = the lens

Unlike English, Romanian usually puts the at the end of the noun instead of before it.