Word
Biletul costă cincizeci de euro.
Meaning
The ticket costs fifty euros.
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Breakdown of Biletul costă cincizeci de euro.
biletul
the ticket
costa
to cost
euro
euro
de
of / to, near (after se apropia)
Questions & Answers about Biletul costă cincizeci de euro.
How is the word cincizeci built?
In Romanian, multiples of ten are formed by combining the base number with zeci (the plural of zece, meaning "ten"). So, cincizeci is literally cinci (five) + zeci (tens).
Why is there a de between the number and euro?
In Romanian, whenever you use a number from 20 up to 100 to count things, you must put the word de (of) between the number and the noun. It is like saying "fifty of euros". Since 50 falls into this range, de is required here.
Shouldn't euro have a plural ending since there are fifty of them?
The word euro is an exception in Romanian. It doesn't change its form in the plural, so you say un euro (one euro) and cincizeci de euro (fifty euros).
What is the -ul at the end of biletul?
That is the Romanian definite article (the word "the"). For masculine and neuter nouns like bilet (ticket), "the" is attached to the end of the word as -ul. So bilet means "a ticket", and biletul means "the ticket".