Questions & Answers about Ea vrea să cumpere o carte pentru examen.
Why does the verb change to cumpere instead of the normal cumpără?
Why do we say să cumpere instead of using an infinitive like in English?
While English uses the infinitive 'to buy' after 'wants', Romanian prefers to conjugate the second verb using the connecting word să. The sentence literally translates to 'she wants that she buys'.
Why is the article o used before carte?
Does the word examen change its ending because it comes after pentru?
No, after the preposition pentru (for), nouns generally stay in their basic, dictionary form.