Breakdown of În clădire sunt șaizeci de camere.
fi
to be (sunt, ești, este, suntem, sunteți, sunt)
camera
the room
în
in
clădirea
the building
de
of / to, near (after se apropia)
șaizeci
sixty
Questions & Answers about În clădire sunt șaizeci de camere.
Why do we need the word de between șaizeci and camere?
In Romanian, numbers from 20 upwards require the connecting word de between the number and the noun being counted. You are literally saying "sixty of rooms". This rule applies to all numbers 20 and above, unless the last part of the number is 1 through 19.
How do you build the number șaizeci?
Why doesn't the Romanian sentence include a word for "there" like in "there are"?
Romanian doesn't use a filler word like "there" to point out that something exists. The verb sunt means "are", but when placed after a location or at the start of a sentence like this, it completely covers the meaning of "there are".
The translation says "in the building", so why is it just în clădire instead of the definite form în clădirea?
After simple prepositions of location like în (in), la (at), or pe (on), Romanian normally drops the "the" suffix from the end of the noun. Native speakers rely on the context to know it means "in the building" rather than "in a building".
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