Breakdown of Ei pictează tabloul albastru.
ei
they; them (after a preposition)
albastru
blue
picta
to paint
tabloul
the painting
Questions & Answers about Ei pictează tabloul albastru.
The lesson is about verbs with the '-ez' suffix, so why does 'a picta' become 'pictează' here?
The dictionary form is a picta. While 'I paint' is eu pictez, the -ez suffix changes to -ează for the 'he/she' and 'they' forms. That is why 'they paint' is ei pictează.
Is 'ei' the only word for 'they'?
Ei means 'they' for an all-male or mixed group. If the group is entirely female, you use ele. Both take the exact same verb form, so 'they paint' can be either ei pictează or ele pictează.
Where is the word for 'the' in 'tabloul'?
Romanian attaches 'the' to the end of the noun. The base word is tablou (painting). Because it is a neuter noun ending in a vowel, we add the definite article -l to the end to get tabloul (the painting).
Why does 'albastru' come after the noun?
In Romanian, descriptive adjectives like albastru (blue) almost always come after the noun they describe. So instead of 'the blue painting', the word order is literally 'the painting blue' (tabloul albastru).