Questions & Answers about Două persoane dorm în cameră.
Why does this sentence use două instead of doi for the number two?
What if the two people sleeping are both men? Do we use doi persoane then?
No, you still use două persoane. The grammatical gender of the word persoană is always feminine, regardless of the actual gender of the people you are talking about. You always match the number to the word's grammatical gender.
The translation says 'are sleeping', but isn't dorm just the regular present tense?
Exactly! Romanian does not have a separate continuous tense like English does. The single word dorm translates to both 'they sleep' and 'they are sleeping'.
Why is it în cameră instead of în camera if the English meaning is 'in the room'?
This is a common Romanian rule. After certain short prepositions like în (in), we usually drop the attached definite article. So even though we mean 'in the room', we just use the basic dictionary form cameră instead of camera.