Questions & Answers about Mama mănâncă în bucătărie.
Why does the translation say "is eating" instead of "eats"?
I learned that mother is mamă. Why does this sentence use mama?
In Romanian, the word for "the" (the definite article) attaches to the very end of the noun instead of standing alone before it. Changing the ending of mamă to "a" makes it mama. This literally means "the mother" but is used as a direct equivalent to "Mom" in English.
The English translation says "in the kitchen", but bucătărie doesn't have the "-a" ending for "the". Shouldn't it be bucătăria?
This is a very common difference between English and Romanian! When stating a location after simple prepositions like în (in), la (at), or pe (on), Romanian usually drops the "the" ending on singular nouns. So you say în bucătărie (literally "in kitchen") to mean "in the kitchen".