Placing Adjectives
In English, we say "a beautiful dog". In Romanian, the adjective almost always comes after the noun.
Adjectives must also agree with the noun they describe in both gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) and number (singular, plural). Notice how the adjective frumos (beautiful) changes its ending depending on whether the noun is masculine or feminine:
Adjective Endings
Most adjectives follow regular patterns to match their nouns. A very common pattern adds -ă for the feminine singular and -e for the feminine and neuter plural.
Some adjectives end in vowels like -u or -i. They still change to agree with the noun, but use slightly different endings like -ă or -ie for feminine singular nouns, and -i for plurals:
Colors are also adjectives and follow these exact same rules:
Agreement with Neuter Nouns
Remember that neuter nouns act like masculine nouns in the singular, and feminine nouns in the plural. The adjectives describing them will do exactly the same!
Notice how the adjective takes the basic masculine form for a singular neuter noun (tricou), but takes the feminine plural form (-e) for plural nouns:
Here is more practice with adjectives adjusting to different nouns:
