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Tăiați carnea mai repede!

Tăiați carnea mai repede!
Cut the meat faster!
From Lesson 131:Plural affirmative commands (tăiați!, amestecați!)·Romanian

Breakdown of Tăiați carnea mai repede!

repede
fast
carnea
the meat
mai
more / still (adverb)
tăia
to cut

Questions & Answers about Tăiați carnea mai repede!

How do I form the plural command tăiați (cut!) from the dictionary form a tăia?
For plural commands (talking to a group), Romanian keeps it simple: the imperative is exactly the same as the present tense! Since "you all cut" is voi tăiați, the command "Cut!" is just Tăiați!
Does Tăiați always mean I'm telling multiple people to cut the meat?
Not necessarily! Because Romanian uses the plural verb form for formal situations, Tăiați can either be a command to a group of people or a polite, formal command to just one person (like a chef giving instructions to a new cook).
I know carne means "meat". Why does it become carnea here?
To say "the meat", Romanian attaches the definite article to the end of the word. For feminine nouns that end in -e (like carne), the "the" ending is -a, making it carnea.
In English we say "faster" with an "-er" ending. How does Romanian handle this with mai repede?
Romanian doesn't use a special word ending to say "faster". Instead, it forms this comparison by simply placing mai (more) in front of the adverb. So, mai repede literally translates to "more fast" or "more quickly".

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