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Femeia are o geantă și niște cutii.

Femeia are o geantă și niște cutii.
The woman has a bag and some boxes.
From Lesson 8:Feminine plural nouns (-e, -i, -le)·Romanian

Questions & Answers about Femeia are o geantă și niște cutii.

Why does cutii have two 'i's at the end?
The singular word for "box" is cutie. To make feminine nouns ending in -ie plural, the standard rule is to drop the final -e and add an -i. That leaves us with the double 'i' in cutii!
Why do we use niște before cutii but o before geantă?
o is the feminine singular word for "a" or "an", so we use it for one bag (o geantă). niște is the plural equivalent, meaning "some". We use it for plural nouns like boxes (niște cutii).
The lesson is about plural endings like -le. Does femeia have a plural ending here?
Not in this sentence! femeia is singular and means "the woman". The base word is femeie (woman), and the -a at the end is how we say "the" for singular feminine nouns. If it were plural ("the women"), it would use the new -le suffix you are learning: femeile.
How would I say "some bags" if she had more than one?
You would use niște plus the plural form of geantă. For many feminine words ending in -ă, the plural ending is -i or -e. For this word, it takes an -i and the inside of the word changes slightly, giving us niște genți (some bags).

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