Word
Pantoful maro este pe scaunul meu.
Meaning
The brown shoe is on my chair.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
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Breakdown of Pantoful maro este pe scaunul meu.
fi
to be (sunt, ești, este, suntem, sunteți, sunt)
scaunul
the chair
pe
on
meu
my [mea, mei, mele]
Questions & Answers about Pantoful maro este pe scaunul meu.
How do we say "the" in pantoful and scaunul?
In Romanian, the word for "the" (the definite article) attaches to the end of the noun rather than coming before it. For masculine and neuter singular nouns like pantof (shoe) and scaun (chair), you add -ul to the end. That is why we have pantoful and scaunul.
Why is the color maro placed after the shoe?
Unlike in English, Romanian adjectives usually come right after the noun they describe. So, instead of "the brown shoe", you literally say "the shoe brown" (pantoful maro).
Would maro change its spelling if we were talking about more than one shoe?
Why does the sentence say scaunul meu instead of just meu scaun for "my chair"?
To say "my [noun]" in Romanian, you must put the possessive word (meu) after the noun, and that noun must have the "the" ending attached to it. So, you are literally saying "the chair my" (scaunul meu).