1. Dă prioritate camionului! = Give priority to the truck!
. I want to check if I understand this.
2. Îi e foame bietului copil, dă-ţi-i ceva de mâncare! = The poor child is starving, give him something to eat!
. beit(ului) is an adjective. Would the context remain consistent if it had been written as 'copilului biet'?
. dă-ţi-i = dă, iţi and îi? or (you give to him sth (mâncare)) correct?
. . is this phrase shortened (with 2 hyphens) as such because the verb used is imperative?
Dear Mike, I don't think you can say in English give priority when it comes to driving.The correct way is, if i remember well, this:
Give the truck right of way!
Both sentences contain imperative forms.In Romanian Imperative expresses a strong request or an order!!!
Yes, biet is an adjective and as you might already know, the topic of Romanian words within the sentence always places the noun first and the adjective after the noun.When there is an inversion, as here, then the adjective takes the article of the noun, in this case ''lui'' which is a Dativ form.I suppose you know the cases, if not tell us!
As regarding the pronoun, it has short and long forms, for each case, certain forms.
Here i is the short form for dativ, which answers the question CUI?=to whom
The forms are:
lui - ii - i
Anything else u need to know, just tell us.I hope I ve been helpful.