Word
Am hotărât și am coborât la restaurant.
Meaning
We decided and went down to the restaurant.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Am hotărât și am coborât la restaurant.
și
and
avea
to have
coborî
to go down / to get off
la
at / to
Questions & Answers about Am hotărât și am coborât la restaurant.
Both hotărât and coborât end in -ât. What is the dictionary form of these verbs?
They come from the verbs a hotărî (to decide) and a coborî (to go down or descend). Verbs that end in -î form their past participle by replacing that ending with -ât.
The English translation says "We decided", but doesn't am mean "I"?
In the Romanian past tense, the helping verb am is used for both "I" (eu am) and "we" (noi am). Without a pronoun like eu or noi in the sentence, you must rely on context to know who is doing the action. Here, the translation tells us it is "we".
Why do hotărât and coborât use â instead of î right before the t?
Romanian spelling rules require that this vowel sound is written as î at the beginning and end of words (like the dictionary forms a hotărî and a coborî), but as â when it appears in the middle of a word (like the past participles hotărât and coborât). Both letters make exactly the same sound.
Why use la restaurant instead of adding a definite article to mean "to the restaurant"?