Learn Romanian: Castronul și lingura sunt pe masă. - The bowl and the spoon are on the table.

Castronul și lingura sunt pe masă.

The bowl and the spoon are on the table.

Breakdown of Castronul și lingura sunt pe masă.

to be (sunt, ești, este, suntem, sunteți, sunt)

Questions & Answers about Castronul și lingura sunt pe masă.

Why do castronul and lingura have different endings if they both include the word "the"?

In Romanian, "the" is attached to the end of the noun and changes depending on the word's gender. Castron (bowl) is a neuter noun, so it takes the ending -ul to become castronul. Lingură (spoon) is a feminine noun ending in -ă, which changes to -a to become lingura.

Why is it just pe masă instead of pe masa for "on the table"?

In Romanian, you usually drop the definite article (the attached "the") when a noun comes directly after a simple preposition like pe (on), în (in), or la (at). Even though we say "on the table" in English, in Romanian you just say pe masă (literally "on table").

Does sunt mean "are" here? I thought it meant "I am".

It actually means both! For the verb a fi (to be), the forms for "I am" (eu sunt) and "they are" (ei/ele sunt) are exactly the same word. Since the subject here is multiple objects (the bowl and the spoon), it translates to "are" in this sentence.