Learn Romanian: Mă trezesc devreme dimineața. - I wake up early in the morning.

Mă trezesc devreme dimineața.

I wake up early in the morning.

Breakdown of Mă trezesc devreme dimineața.

the morning / in the morning

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Questions & Answers about Mă trezesc devreme dimineața.

Why do we need Mă here? Can't I just say Trezesc devreme?

If you just say Trezesc, it means you are waking someone else up. In Romanian, many daily routine verbs are reflexive. You have to literally say "I wake myself", which is Mă trezesc.

Where does the reflexive pronoun go in the sentence?

Short reflexive pronouns like mă go right before the verb. If you wanted to make it negative and say "I don't wake up", the word nu would go right before the pronoun: Nu mă trezesc.

Why does the word for morning have an -a at the end (dimineața)?

The base word for "morning" is dimineață. The -a at the end is the definite article attached to the word, meaning "the". In Romanian, to say that something happens "in the morning" as a habit, you just use the "the" form: dimineața.

Do I need to say Eu (I) at the beginning of this sentence?

You don't have to! The verb form trezesc and the pronoun mă already make it perfectly clear that "I" am doing the action. You would only add Eu at the start to emphasize that you wake up early, as opposed to someone else.