Learning Romanian language

Thank you kmmy

u r welcome mimi

Hi guys. Translation to this please? "nu trebuie sa-ti faci griji"

Is there a gender in it?

Nu trebuie sa-ti faci griji / You don't have to worry

Thank you baby_girl!

Not at all

Originally Posted by safe1

Thank you baby_girl!

Originally Posted by arabikprincessangel

if the name is exactly "TARA LUANEI" is not allowed to translate...u use exactly like this in all languages...yes like meaning is luana's country....but corectly not allowed to translate

Imi pare rau, but I don't understand at all what you are saying here. Why not "allowed" to translate "correctly"? Does the particular structure of the word form make it some kind of dirty word or something? Or do you mean that it can't be translated exactly into English for some reason?

Sunt confuz.

Sunt atat de fericit! Serios!

For the first time ever, I was able to watch a news story on Romanian TV and understand almost every word.

I can't express how gratifying this was for me. I didn't know where else I could say this either, none of my friends would understand, and it has been SO difficult for me to train my ear to hear complete sentences in Romanian, rather than just a stray single word or two here and there.

Thank you all so much, reading the many translations of song lyrics so many here have so generously provided along with the videos at Youtube has helped me tremendously.

Even though it was only a story about fotbal, and so used simpler words than many other stories often do, it was the first light at the end of a very long tunnel for me.

Uimitor.

Perfect timing too, because in one week I am flying to Bucureste for a friend's wedding.

Multumesc foarte multi, Allthelyrics: Romanian!

I've been reading the thread from post one, currently at page 26 now. I think I learned a lot so far. , I skipped the nominative, accusative, genitive, dative part at page 10~, thinking I could afford myself to skip on that lesson. But it turns out that it's quite crucial to the grammar of Romanian language as it determines the articles of the nouns.

I don't know what to say but, it's gonna take me a WHILE before I can assign the fast mechanism of determining what case is the sentence into my brain, which delays my ability to speak Romanian by a lot. Do you guys think I'm overlooking this obstacle??....

Hi monza, not sure if anyone's replied to you yet. But what she meant is that there is no direct translation, i.e. not an exact phrase that would be perfect. Yes, it's correct to say "Luana's country", or even better, "the country of Luana", but you see how many translations there are?:
Luana's country
the country of Luana
the country to which Luana belongs
the country from which Luana comes...
and so on and so forth.

If you really want to get into the grammar of Romanian, let's say that
TARA = the country (I don't have diacritics on this computer, but there will be a diacritic on the T and not on the final A as it would be if it were an indefinite noun without an article)
and LUANEI = the accusative form of LUANA (to oversimplify, it functions almost like the apostrophe-"s" in English--denoting possession).
Now, tara would have a diacritic if it were just a noun (it's feminine) that wasn't specific (like saying "country" as opposed to "the country"). But when you're using the possessive form, since it's followed by "Luanei", it needs "the" (if you've ever studied Italian, it's the same--la mia paese, literally "the my country" with the definite article "la"). In Romanian, the feminine definite article is formed by converting the a (with a downward diacritic) to an a (without a diacritic). This might seem strange to someone used to seeing articles unattached to words, and I'm definitely oversimplifying for you, but I hope this explanation is a satisfactory answer.

Originally Posted by dragonfly93

Hi monza, not sure if anyone's replied to you yet. But what she meant is that there is no direct translation, i.e. not an exact phrase that would be perfect. Yes, it's correct to say "Luana's country", or even better, "the country of Luana", but you see how many translations there are?:
Luana's country
the country of Luana
the country to which Luana belongs
the country from which Luana comes...
and so on and so forth.

See, this is why I am always telling my Romanian friends that English is the simple language, Romanian the hard.

Originally Posted by dragonfly93

If you really want to get into the grammar of Romanian, let's say that
TARA = the country (I don't have diacritics on this computer, but there will be a diacritic on the T and not on the final A as it would be if it were an indefinite noun without an article)
and LUANEI = the accusative form of LUANA (to oversimplify, it functions almost like the apostrophe-"s" in English--denoting possession).
Now, tara would have a diacritic if it were just a noun (it's feminine) that wasn't specific (like saying "country" as opposed to "the country"). But when you're using the possessive form, since it's followed by "Luanei", it needs "the" (if you've ever studied Italian, it's the same--la mia paese, literally "the my country" with the definite article "la"). In Romanian, the feminine definite article is formed by converting the a (with a downward diacritic) to an a (without a diacritic). This might seem strange to someone used to seeing articles unattached to words, and I'm definitely oversimplifying for you, but I hope this explanation is a satisfactory answer.

I do appreciate that dragon. When to use the 'the' form has been another of many challenges for me. When and where to place "nu" is another big one, sometimes it seems to connote negative, other times positive. Diacritics, wow, I'm beginning to get a better feel now but then I often do instant messaging with a couple friends in Bucharest---their English is not so good, despite their years at University there (technical fields)---where diacritics are not in use, difficult when I have to try and look up something they've just typed in a dictionary, online or off.

I'm aware of the similarities to Italian but have never studied it. I'm also aware of certain Latinate constructions Romanian employs and regret having chosen Spanish to study at school rather than Latin, now. Here we have almost infinite resources for learning a language like Spanish, for Romanian next to none. Even many of the native-born Romanians who live over here now don't know enough English to be helpful. I read Romanian Business Insider and Ziarul every day hoping the unfortunate isolationism of the country is soon effectively overcome and more sturdy bridges can be built.

All in all I am more and more amazed at the beauty and nuance Romanian is capable of. As I am about the history, geography, architecture, and so on, while almost no one seems to know anything of this outside of a privileged few.

Thursday I fly over for my first short visit. I can hardly wait, and can hardly wait, already, for my second planned visit, when I will have much more time for exploring.

I've already been "warned" about all the Romanian dishes I can expect to sample throughout the wedding festival (the bride is quite a cook), and am looking greatly forward to it. Maybe some tuica to wash it down?

Thanks again for the help & pointers.

Could anyone show list with romanian week days names, months names and colours names. It's basics and i cant found it anywhere.

you can find them here: months and days of the week and colors

Mulţumesc

cu plăcere

I'd travel everywhere as long as it's not Siberia. - How do you say "as long as"? The dictionary says "atat timp cat" but I'm not convinced?

„Your voice is very nice“ or „You have very beautiful voice“ how it will sound in romanian?

Originally Posted by Krevetis

„Your voice is very nice“ or „You have very beautiful voice“ how it will sound in romanian?

I'd use the second one, so: You have a very beautiful voice / Ai o voce foarte frumoasă

Originally Posted by Mimi0920

I'd travel everywhere as long as it's not Siberia. - How do you say "as long as"? The dictionary says "atat timp cat" but I'm not convinced?

As long as / Atâta timp cât

What does nicăiurea mean??