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Cine locuiește în această clădire nouă?

Cine locuiește în această clădire nouă?
Who lives in this new building?
From Lesson 32:Demonstrative adjectives (acest, acel)·Romanian

Breakdown of Cine locuiește în această clădire nouă?

cine
who
nou
new
în
in
locui
to live
această
this
clădirea
the building

Questions & Answers about Cine locuiește în această clădire nouă?

Why do we use această instead of acest?
Because the word for building, clădire, is feminine in Romanian. Această is the feminine singular form of "this", while acest is used for masculine and neuter nouns.
Why does această come before the noun, but nouă comes after it?
Demonstrative adjectives like această (this) usually come right before the noun (această clădire). Regular descriptive adjectives like nouă (new) almost always go after the noun (clădire nouă). When you have both, the noun sits in the middle: această clădire nouă.
I remember nouă being the number nine. Does it also mean "new"?
Yes! Nouă is the feminine singular form of the adjective meaning "new" (the masculine form is nou). It looks and sounds exactly like the number nine, so you have to rely on context to know which one is being used.
Why does the verb locuiește have such a long ending?
The base verb is a locui (to live/reside). It belongs to a very common group of Romanian verbs that add an -esc or -ește extension in the present tense. Because the question word cine (who) is treated as a "he/she/it" subject, the verb takes the third-person singular ending -ește.

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