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Questions & Answers about Inginerul lucrează mult.
Why is the word for 'the' missing from the Romanian sentence?
Why does the verb a lucra change to lucrează?
The dictionary form of the verb is a lucra (to work). Many Romanian verbs that end in -a use a special pattern in the present tense where they add -ez or -ează into the middle of the word. For 'he', 'she', or 'it', this makes the form lucrează.
Why do we use mult here instead of mulți or multe?
Here, mult is describing the action of working (how much the engineer works), so it acts as an adverb meaning 'a lot' or 'much'. When used to describe an action like this, mult never changes its spelling. You only use forms like mulți or multe when describing plural nouns, like 'many engineers' (mulți ingineri).