Word
Avem o mașină nouă.
Meaning
We have a new car.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Questions & Answers about Avem o mașină nouă.
Why does nouă come after mașină instead of before it?
In Romanian, adjectives usually come right after the noun they describe. So instead of saying 'a new car' like in English, you say 'a car new' (o mașină nouă).
Why is the word for 'new' nouă here instead of nou?
Adjectives in Romanian have to match the gender of the noun. The word for car (mașină) is feminine. The basic masculine form of 'new' is nou, but its feminine singular form is nouă.
Wait, doesn't nouă also mean the number nine? How do I tell them apart?