Word
Caut un chiriaș care să fie liniștit.
Meaning
I am looking for a tenant who is quiet.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Caut un chiriaș care să fie liniștit.
fi
to be (sunt, ești, este, suntem, sunteți, sunt)
un
a / an (m/n)
să
to (subjunctive marker)
căuta
to look for
Questions & Answers about Caut un chiriaș care să fie liniștit.
Why do we use să fie instead of este here?
Because you are looking for a tenant (an indefinite, hypothetical person), not someone specific you already know. In Romanian, when a relative clause describes an indefinite or desired noun, we use care să + subjunctive. If you were talking about a specific tenant you already have, you would use the indicative: chiriașul care este liniștit (the tenant who is quiet).
How does care să fie work grammatically if the translation just says 'who is'?
In English, we use the normal present tense ('who is') whether the person is hypothetical or real. Romanian uses the subjunctive marker să to show that this is a desired trait of a person who hasn't been found yet. You can think of it literally as 'who might be' or 'who should be'.
Why is there no word for 'for' after caut?
The Romanian verb a căuta means 'to look for' or 'to seek'. It connects directly to the noun without needing an extra preposition. So, caut un chiriaș directly translates to 'I seek a tenant'.