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Obiectivul meu este clar, am să slăbesc cinci kilograme.

Obiectivul meu este clar, am să slăbesc cinci kilograme.
My objective is clear, I am going to lose five kilograms.
From Lesson 126:Conversational future tense (am să)·Romanian

Questions & Answers about Obiectivul meu este clar, am să slăbesc cinci kilograme.

Why does this sentence use am (I have) instead of the standard future tense voi?
This sentence uses the alternative conversational future tense. You form it with the present tense of a avea (here, am for I have) plus să and the subjunctive verb. Am să slăbesc means I am going to lose weight, and it is often preferred in casual everyday speech over the formal voi slăbi.
Why doesn't Romanian use the verb a pierde (to lose) for losing kilograms?
In English, you lose keys and you lose weight, but Romanian uses different verbs. A pierde is strictly for misplacing things or losing a game. To talk about losing weight, you must use the specific verb a slăbi (to get thinner or to lose weight).
What is the base verb for slăbesc and why does it have an -esc ending?
The infinitive is a slăbi. It belongs to the group of verbs ending in -i that add the -esc suffix in the present and subjunctive tenses. Because of this, for the first-person I, it becomes să slăbesc.
Why is the possessive word meu used with obiectivul instead of mea?
Obiectiv is a neuter noun. In the singular, neuter nouns behave exactly like masculine nouns, so it takes the masculine/neuter possessive adjective meu (my). The suffix -ul is the definite article, so obiectivul meu literally means the objective my.

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