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Câinele fuge repede în parcul mare.

Câinele fuge repede în parcul mare.
The dog runs fast in the big park.
From Lesson 14:Present tense of regular -i and -î verbs·Romanian

Breakdown of Câinele fuge repede în parcul mare.

câinele
the dog
mare
big
fugi
to run
repede
fast
în
in
parcul
the park

Questions & Answers about Câinele fuge repede în parcul mare.

The dictionary form of "to run" is a fugi. Why does it end in "-e" here (fuge)?
A fugi is a regular Conjugation 4 verb (ending in -i). For many of these verbs, the "he/she/it" (third-person singular) form drops the -i and ends in -e. So, el fuge means "he/it runs".
Both câinele and parcul mean "the [noun]". Why do they use different endings?
In Romanian, the word for "the" (the definite article) attaches to the end of the noun based on its gender and spelling. Câine (dog) is a masculine noun ending in -e, so it takes -le to make câinele. Parc (park) is a neuter noun ending in a consonant, so it takes -ul to make parcul.
Why is it parcul mare instead of mare parcul for "the big park"?
In Romanian, descriptive adjectives like mare (big) almost always come right after the noun they describe. Since the noun comes first, it is the word that carries the "the" ending, giving us parcul mare (literally "park-the big").
Does the word repede (fast) change depending on the dog's gender?
No. In this sentence, repede is an adverb describing the verb fuge (how the dog runs). Adverbs in Romanian do not change their spelling, so repede stays exactly the same no matter who or what is running.

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