Word
Noi bem laptele rece din pahar.
Meaning
We drink the cold milk from the glass.
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Breakdown of Noi bem laptele rece din pahar.
noi
we
paharul
the glass
bea
to drink
din
from / out of / in (located in, after a noun)
Questions & Answers about Noi bem laptele rece din pahar.
Why is the verb bem?
Bem is the "we" form of the verb a bea (to drink). It is slightly irregular. The present tense forms are: eu beau (I drink), tu bei (you drink), el/ea bea (he/she drinks), noi bem (we drink), voi beți (you all drink), and ei/ele beau (they drink).
Why does laptele end in -le? I thought the word for milk was lapte.
Why is the word order laptele rece instead of the other way around?
In Romanian, adjectives (describing words like rece) almost always come after the noun they describe. So, instead of saying "the cold milk", you say the equivalent of "the milk cold" (laptele rece).
The English translation says "from the glass", but pahar doesn't have an attached "the" ending. Why?
In Romanian, you usually drop the definite article (the "the" ending) after simple prepositions like din (from/out of), în (in), or pe (on). So, even though we mean "from the glass", we just say din pahar rather than din paharul.