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Vă pregătiți și apoi ieșiți afară.

Vă pregătiți și apoi ieșiți afară.
You get ready and then go outside.
From Lesson 18:Reflexive pronouns (mă, te, se, ne, vă)·Romanian

Breakdown of Vă pregătiți și apoi ieșiți afară.

și
and
ieși
to go out
afară
outside
apoi
then
se pregăti
to get ready

Questions & Answers about Vă pregătiți și apoi ieșiți afară.

Why do we need the word Vă before pregătiți?
Vă is a reflexive pronoun meaning "yourselves" (or the polite, formal "yourself"). The base verb a pregăti means "to prepare." In Romanian, "getting ready" is viewed as an action you do to yourself. So, you literally say "you prepare yourselves," which is vă pregătiți.
Does the Vă also apply to ieșiți?
No, it only belongs to pregătiți. You prepare yourselves (which is reflexive), but you don't "go outside yourselves." The verb a ieși (to go out / to exit) is a regular, non-reflexive verb, so it stands alone as ieșiți.
Where is the subject "you" in this sentence?
Romanian usually drops subject pronouns like voi (you all) or dumneavoastră (formal you) because the verb endings already show who is doing the action. Both pregătiți and ieșiți end in -ți, which signals that the subject is "you." Remember that Vă is the object "yourselves," not the subject "you."
Since ieșiți already means "you go out," isn't ieșiți afară repetitive?
It translates literally as "you go out outside," which might sound a bit repetitive in English! However, in Romanian, combining a ieși (to exit/go out) with afară (outside) is the most common and natural way to say "go outside."

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