Breakdown of Ea ne-a trimis linkul pentru videoconferința de mâine.
ea
she
avea
to have
ne
to us / us (direct object)
de
of / to, near (after se apropia)
mâine
tomorrow
pentru
for
trimite
to send
linkul
the link
videoconferința
the videoconference
Questions & Answers about Ea ne-a trimis linkul pentru videoconferința de mâine.
How do we translate the English possessive tomorrow's in the phrase videoconferința de mâine?
Because mâine is an adverb of time, it cannot take a genitive possessive ending like a noun would. Instead, Romanian uses the preposition de to link the noun to the time word, literally meaning the videoconference of tomorrow. This works for other time expressions too, like ziarul de ieri for yesterday's newspaper.
The word link is an English loanword. How does Romanian handle its gender and definite article in linkul?
Most recent English loanwords that end in a consonant are adopted as neuter nouns in Romanian. This means they behave like masculine nouns in the singular and feminine nouns in the plural. Here, link takes the standard singular neuter definite article -ul to become linkul meaning the link. Its plural would be linkurile.
Is the pronoun ne- in ne-a trimis a direct or an indirect object?
It is an indirect object. The verb a trimite meaning to send takes a direct object for the thing being sent, which here is linkul, and an indirect object for the recipient. The form ne meaning to us is the unstressed indirect object pronoun, which is attached with a hyphen to the auxiliary verb a.
Why does videoconferința have the definite article -a attached, even though it follows the preposition pentru?
While some prepositions in Romanian require a singular noun to drop its definite article, such as cu or în, the preposition pentru generally expects the following noun to keep its definite article if it refers to a specific thing. This is why we see videoconferința meaning the videoconference rather than just the base noun videoconferință.
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