Word
Am cumpărat un telefon folosit.
Meaning
I bought a used phone.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Am cumpărat un telefon folosit.
telefonul
the phone
un
a / an (m/n)
avea
to have
cumpăra
to buy
Questions & Answers about Am cumpărat un telefon folosit.
How do we know that folosit is acting as an adjective here?
Just like in English, Romanian frequently uses the past participle of a verb as an adjective. Here, folosit is the past participle of a folosi (to use). Because it is acting as an adjective, it must agree with the noun telefon in gender and number.
Telefon is a neuter noun. How does that affect the ending of folosit?
In Romanian, neuter nouns act like masculine nouns in the singular and feminine nouns in the plural. Since telefon is singular here, the adjective takes the standard masculine/neuter singular form folosit. If you bought multiple used phones, it would switch to the feminine plural form: telefoane folosite.
Is folosit the most natural way to say "second-hand" in everyday Romanian?