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Romance languages: Romanian

Romanian is spoken by 26 million native speakers in Romania and Moldavia. It's a romance language, proceeding from the Latin language.

Conjugate a Romanian verb:
Fill in the infinitive. Don't use any capital letters!

Entering verbs:

There are Romanian specific characters. If you cannot input them, try the following:

To input:

Enter:

Example

a(

za(cea equals zcea

â

a>

ca>nta equals cânta

T

Tine equals ine

S

Sti equals ti

Notes on the verbs

Romanian verbs are divided into four conjugation groups according to the ending of the infinitive: 1. -a (e.g., cânta 'sing'), 2. -e (include), 3. -ea (e.g., avea 'have') and 4. -ire (e.g., citi 'understand'). (Cf. Italian)

Sources (for verb conjugation): 

  • Bulgãr, Gh.. Limba românã. Editura Vox. Bucures,ti. 1995.
  • Candréa-Hecht, J.-A.. Cours Complet de Grammaire roumaine. Friedrich Fleischer's Buchhandlung. Leipzig. 1900.
  • Grigorie, Toma. Verbe românes,ti. Editura Universitaria. Craiova. 1994.
  • Lombard, Alf et Gâdei Constantin. Dictionnaire Morphologique de la langue Roumaine. Editura Academiei. Bucures,ti. 1981.
  • Lombard, Alf. Le verbe roumain. Deuxième volume. 2 edition. Lund. 1953.
  • Lombard, Alf. Rumänsk grammatik. CWK Gleerup Bokförlag. Lund. 1973.
  • Rosetti, AL.. Istoria Limbii Române. Editura Pentru Literaturã. Bucures,ti. 1968.
  • Tãnase, Eugène. Traits spécifiques qui distinguent le roumain des autres langues romanes en morpho-syntaxe. A Coruña. 1993.
  • Hoffman, Christina. Romanian Grammar. Hippocrene Books. 2 edition. New York. 1998.

 
Content updated 23.09.2006
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