Questions & Answers about Câinele are nasul rece.
Why does the sentence use nasul (the nose) when the English translation says "a cold nose"?
In Romanian, when you talk about body parts, you almost always use the definite article (the word for "the"). Instead of saying "a cold nose" or "his cold nose", Romanian literally says the nose cold (nasul rece).
How is the word câinele (the dog) formed?
The base word for dog is câine. To say "the dog", Romanian attaches the definite article to the end of the word. For masculine nouns that end in -e, the attached article is -le, making it câinele.
Why does the adjective rece come after nasul?
In Romanian, most adjectives are placed right after the noun they describe. So instead of "cold nose", the word order is nose cold (nasul rece).
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