Word
Ea cumpără cămașa galbenă.
Meaning
She buys the yellow shirt.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Questions & Answers about Ea cumpără cămașa galbenă.
Why is it cămașa instead of cămașă?
Cămașă means a shirt. To say the shirt, Romanian attaches the word for the (the definite article) to the end of the noun. For feminine nouns ending in -ă, that ending changes to -a. So, cămașă becomes cămașa.
Why does galbenă come after cămașa?
In Romanian, adjectives usually come after the noun they describe. Instead of saying the yellow shirt as we do in English, the Romanian word order is literally the shirt yellow (cămașa galbenă).
Why is the word for yellow galbenă here instead of galben?
Adjectives must match the gender of the noun they describe. Since cămașă is a feminine noun, the adjective takes the feminine singular form galbenă, rather than the masculine/neuter form galben.
Can cumpără mean anything else besides she buys?
Yes, cumpără can also mean he buys, it buys, or they buy. It is the present tense form of the verb a cumpăra (to buy) for both the third-person singular and plural. We know it means she buys here because of the pronoun ea (she).