Fresh Fruit
Let's head to the market for some healthy produce. In Romanian, adjectives usually come after the noun they describe, and they must agree with the noun's gender and number. For example, with the neuter noun fructul (the fruit), we use the masculine/neuter forms of adjectives like proaspăt (fresh) and gustos (tasty).
Vegetables and Plurals
Next up are vegetables. The word for "the vegetable" is the feminine noun leguma, and the word for "the potato" is the masculine noun cartoful.
When talking about multiple items in their definite form ("the vegetables", "the potatoes"), the feminine plural ending is typically -le (legumele), and the masculine plural ending is -i (cartofii).
Making a Salad
To make a fresh meal, you might prepare a salad. Here we use feminine nouns like salata (the salad), roșia (the tomato), and ceapa (the onion). Notice how the indefinite article for feminine nouns is o (a/an).
Flavorful Roots and "It"
To add flavor to your cooking, you can use usturoi (garlic) and morcovi (carrots).
When you want to replace a noun with "it", Romanian uses different direct object pronouns depending on the noun's gender. Use îl for masculine and neuter nouns (like morcovul), and o for feminine nouns (like salata). These short pronouns are placed right before the verb.
