Questions & Answers about Avem o farmacie nouă pe această stradă.
Why doesn't the sentence say Noi avem for 'We have'?
Why is the word order o farmacie nouă instead of o nouă farmacie?
Unlike in English, most Romanian adjectives come right after the noun they describe. So 'a new pharmacy' becomes o farmacie nouă (literally 'a pharmacy new').
Why is the word for 'new' spelled nouă here?
Adjectives in Romanian change to match the gender of the noun. Because farmacie is a feminine noun, the adjective takes its feminine singular form, nouă. If it were a masculine noun, you would use nou.
I have seen the word for 'this' placed after the noun before. Why is această before stradă here?
In Romanian, words like 'this' and 'that' can go before or after the noun. You can say această stradă (before the noun) or strada aceasta (after the noun). When it comes before the noun, the noun stays in its basic form without a definite article attached to the end.