Word
Tu dormi douăzeci de ore în acest pat!
Meaning
You sleep twenty hours in this bed!
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about Tu dormi douăzeci de ore în acest pat!
Why is the word de inserted between douăzeci and ore?
This is the main rule for counting in Romanian! For numbers from 1 to 19, the number goes directly before the noun. But starting at the number 20, you must place the word de between the number and the noun. You can think of it as literally saying "twenty of hours".
What is the singular form of ore (hours)?
Why do we use acest instead of această for "this" before pat?
Since dormi already means "you sleep", do we have to include the word tu?
No, you can drop tu completely. Because the verb dormi specifically means "you sleep", the subject pronoun is optional. Including tu at the start of the sentence just gives it extra emphasis, as if saying, "YOU sleep twenty hours!"