Whole and complete
Întreg (whole, entire) normally follows the noun: o săptămână întreagă (a whole week), familia întreagă (the whole family). Its forms are întreg, întreagă, întregi.
Complet is the kind of word you met in the last lesson: an adjective that also works as an adverb with no change of form.
My own: propriu
Before the noun, propriu takes the definite article and agrees: propriul meu birou, propria mea afacere, propria cameră. After the noun it has no article, as in the fixed phrase pe cont propriu (on your own account, self-employed).
| before the noun | after the noun |
|---|
| masculine, neuter | propriul | propriu |
| feminine | propria | proprie |
Special and general
Special and general look like their English twins and agree regularly: o zi specială, o regulă generală. A director general runs the whole company.
Narrow, slow, soft
Îngust (narrow) has the plural înguști. Lent is slow and steady, often said of machines and music: internetul e lent. Moale has just two forms: moale for both genders in the singular, moi in the plural.
Awful and useful
Groaznic is built on groaza (terror), but in everyday speech it just means awful. Folositor comes from a folosi (to use), and means the same as util.
