Word
Psihologul pe care l-am ales are multă empatie.
Meaning
The psychologist I chose has a lot of empathy.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Psihologul pe care l-am ales are multă empatie.
avea
to have
mult
a lot
îl
him / it (m, n)
alege
to choose
Questions & Answers about Psihologul pe care l-am ales are multă empatie.
Why is there an l- in front of am ales? Doesn't pe care already mean "whom"?
Yes, pe care means "whom," but Romanian requires a "resumptive pronoun" when a relative clause has a direct object. You are literally saying "The psychologist whom I chose him." The l- is the shortened form of îl (him), and it is mandatory here.
Could I just say Psihologul care am ales, similar to English where we often drop "whom"?
No, that's a common trap for English speakers! First, Romanian never allows you to skip the relative pronoun. Second, when care is the direct object (the person being chosen), standard Romanian grammar requires both the preposition pe before it and the matching object pronoun (l-) before the verb.
If the sentence were about a female psychologist (psiholoaga), how would the phrase pe care l-am ales change?
You would need to change the masculine pronoun l- (him) to the feminine pronoun o (her). Because o does not combine with the auxiliary verb am using a hyphen, it must go after the past participle instead: psiholoaga pe care am ales-o.
Why do we use multă here instead of just mult?