====== cases ====== Romanian has five cases, the details of them will be covered in much more depth over the course. As they are mentioned in the lesson briefly, here is a summary of what they are: * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_case|nominative]]: The most common case for a noun, the nominative is often the form listed in dictionaries. e.g. "they" in English is nominative. * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusative_case|accusative]]: The noun having something done to it. e.g."them" is accusative. The sentence "They like them" demonstrates nominative and accusative. * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dative_case|dative]]: The noun to which something is given. * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genitive_case|genitive]]: This case shows possession, in English it's all that apostrophe stuff. * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocative_case|vocative]] Indicates the party being addressed. In the phrase "I don't know, John", **John** is a vocative expression (I'm telling John I don't know). As opposed to the sentence "I don't know John" in which **John** is an individual I don't know. ====== To Have ====== The key thing to learn here is: * The verb [[uni:to_be#a_avea_to_have|to have]]