Breakdown of Rochia nouă este scumpă, dar cea elegantă este ieftină.
fi
to be (sunt, ești, este, suntem, sunteți, sunt)
dar
but
nou
new
scump
expensive
ieftin
cheap
rochia
the dress
cea
the one (f) / the most (f, superlative article)
elegant
elegant
Questions & Answers about Rochia nouă este scumpă, dar cea elegantă este ieftină.
Why do we use cea instead of cel in the second half of the sentence?
Does cea just mean "one" in English?
In this context, it translates to "the ... one" (as in "the elegant one"). Words like cea or cel are demonstrative articles that point back to a noun we have already mentioned, so we do not have to repeat it.
Why do the adjectives nouă, scumpă, elegantă, and ieftină all end in -ă?
They all describe the same feminine singular noun, rochie (dress). In Romanian, adjectives must agree in gender and number with the noun they describe, so they all take their feminine singular forms here.
Wait, is the word for "dress" rochie or rochia?
The base word is rochie. The -a at the end is the definite article "the" attached to the noun. So rochie means "dress", and rochia means "the dress".
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