Plural negative commands (nu hrăniți!)

Plural Negative Commands

When giving a negative command to a group of people (or to a single person formally), Romanian keeps things simple. Unlike the singular negative command which requires the bare infinitive, the plural negative command simply places nu before the regular second-person plural form of the verb.

Here is how a guide might instruct tourists in a nature reserve:

Direct Object Pronouns

When replacing a noun with a direct object pronoun (like "it" or "them"), the short-form pronoun goes between nu and the verb.

If the pronoun begins with a vowel, like îl (masculine/neuter singular "it"), it attaches directly to nu with a hyphen to become nu-l. If the pronoun begins with a consonant, like le (feminine/neuter plural "them"), it stands alone as a separate word.