Breakdown of Am nevoie de sacul de dormit pentru excursie.
dormi
to sleep
pentru
for
avea nevoie de
to need
excursia
the trip, the excursion
sacul
the sack
de
to (before a supine: hard to do, have to do, finished doing)
Questions & Answers about Am nevoie de sacul de dormit pentru excursie.
How does de dormit work here to mean sleeping?
It is the supine form used to show purpose. By taking the past participle dormit and putting de in front of it, you create a modifier that describes what the bag is used for, making it literally a bag for sleeping.
Why are there two instances of the word de in this sentence?
If the translation is the sleeping bag, why is the definite article attached to sac instead of the whole phrase?
In Romanian, when a noun is followed by a modifier like a supine phrase, the definite article only attaches to the main noun. So we use sacul (the bag) followed by de dormit (for sleeping), rather than trying to put an article at the very end of the phrase.
Why is it pentru excursie and not pentru excursia if the English translation says for the trip?
After prepositions like pentru, Romanian commonly drops the definite article if the noun refers to a general, understood event. You would generally only use the articulated form excursia here if you were adding more specific details right after it, like pentru excursia de mâine (for the trip tomorrow).
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