Distributing Items and Tasks with "Câte"
When handing out supplies for a neighborhood cleanup or assigning tasks to volunteers, you often need to specify how many items go to each person. To say "each" (as in "two rakes each"), Romanian uses the word câte.
Simply place câte directly before the number.
| We take two rakes each. | Luăm câte două greble. |
| Do you take three bags each? | Luați câte trei saci? |
Using "Câte" with "One"
When distributing exactly one item per person or group, use câte un for masculine and neuter nouns, and câte o for feminine nouns.
| They clean one sector each. | Curăță câte un sector. |
| We are bringing one wheelbarrow each here for every team. | Aducem aici câte o roabă pentru fiecare echipă. |
"At a Time"
Beyond "each", câte combined with a number is also used to express doing something "at a time" or in groups (e.g., "two at a time"). The grammatical structure remains exactly the same.
| We want to remove them two at a time. | Vrem să le îndepărtăm câte două. |
Organizing the Cleanup
Now you can combine this structure with new cleanup vocabulary like a repartiza (to assign), a coordona (to coordinate), and a goli (to empty) to effectively manage your team.
| I assign you four volunteers each. | Vă repartizez câte patru voluntari. |
| Empty three bins each! | Să goliți câte trei tomberoane! |
| The coordinator assigned us two sectors each. | Coordonatorul ne-a repartizat câte două sectoare. |
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