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Lacul este frumos și rece.

Lacul este frumos și rece.
The lake is beautiful and cold.
From Lesson 70:In the Wild·Romanian

Questions & Answers about Lacul este frumos și rece.

Why does the word for 'the lake' have 'the' attached to the end of it?
In Romanian, the definite article (the word for 'the') is attached to the end of the noun instead of coming before it. The base word is lac (lake), and because it is a masculine or neuter noun ending in a consonant, we add -ul to make lacul (the lake).
Is lac masculine, feminine, or neuter?
Lac is a neuter noun. In Romanian, neuter nouns act like masculine nouns when there is only one (singular), and like feminine nouns when there is more than one (plural). Since we are talking about one lake here, it behaves like a masculine noun.
Because lac is acting masculine here, is frumos the masculine form of the adjective?
Yes! Frumos is the masculine and neuter singular form of the word 'beautiful.' If we were describing a feminine noun, like a girl (fată), we would change it to the feminine form frumoasă.
Why doesn't the adjective rece have a special masculine ending like frumos?
Adjectives ending in -e in their base dictionary form, like rece (cold) or mare (big), are exactly the same for masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns in the singular. You do not need to change the ending to match the noun here!

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