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Romanian has two grammatical numbers: singular and plural.Morphologically, the plural form is built by adding specific endings to the singular form. For example, nominative nouns without the definite article form the plural by adding one of the endings -i, -uri, -e, or -le.
Rules other than phonetic can be used when the meaning of the noun is known or at least its semantic group is recognized. In this category obvious examples are proper names of people, or nouns designating nationality, profession, etc. Nouns referring to animals and birds are always specific to their biological gender, and often occur in pairs the same way as we have cow and bull in English.
The -le ending is used for all masculine singular nouns ending in -e, e.g. fråtele (the brother), sorele (the sun), cărele (the dog). Some examples of masculine nouns showing case endings, nominative=accusative, genitive=dative. The vocative case is not shown as this normally corresponds with the nominative. fiľ (son), fiľi (pl.)
For example: кучка (kuchka, a small pile) -> куча (kucha, a pile) - the general meaning remains, it is a diminutive form, but тачка (tachka, wheelbarrow) -> тача (tacha, no such word) - the general meaning changes, it is not a diminutive form, потолок (potolok, ceiling) -> потол (potol, no such word) - the same ...
A word of an inflectional language has only one ending and therefore the number of possible divisions of a word into the base and the ending is only linear with the length of the word. In an agglutinative language, where several suffixes are concatenated at the end of the word, the number of different divisions which have to be checked for ...
Examples include Brânză de burduf, Brânză de vaci, Brânză de coșuleț, and Telemea. [1] Mujdei – A spicy sauce. Palatschinke – A thin crêpe-like variety of pancake common in Central and Eastern Europe. From Latin placenta (cake) via Romanian plăcintă (cake) and Hungarian palacsinta. [2] Pastrami – A seasoned smoked cut of beef. [3]
Examples of words containing this letter are: d̦ece ("ten"), d̦i ("day") – reflecting its derivation [23] from the Latin word dies, Dumned̦eu ("God") – reflecting [24] the Latin phrase Domine Deus, d̦ână ("fairy") [25] – to be derived from the Latin word Diana. In today's Romanian language this letter is no longer present and Latin ...
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