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duolingo:physical_and_emotional_sensations

Overview

For most sensations (and the goal of this lesson), the romanian grammar is unusual to english language speakers. What is actually being said id to me is is <sensation>

Enter the dative

To appreciate fully what is happening in this grammar, one has to have an understanding of pronouns in dative and genitive (or at least the dative bit).

In the dative, one talks about a recipient and (usually) an object. In the case of sensations, the recipient is the person receiving the sensation and the object the sensation. Also, the short form of the pronoun is used.

So, we start with the pronoun:

Person Short Form
me îmi -mi
you (s) îți -ți
him/her îi -i
us ne
you (p)
them le

It's then followed by e (it is).

Note, when using the short form (first person and second person singular), a hyphen is used between the pronoun and the verb to be:

  • mi-e
  • ți-e
  • îi e
  • ne e
  • vă e
  • le e

Then at last the sensation

  • Frig - cold
  • Cald - hot
  • Foame - Hungry
  • Sete - Thirsty

Negate, I'm not

To say you aren't something… Just put a 'nu' before it:

  • nu mi-e cald. - I'm not hot.
  • nu mi-e sete. - I'm not thirsty.

Example: Hungry & Thirsty

  • Mi-e foame. - I'm hungry. (or to me it is hunger)
  • Mi-e sete. - I'm thirsty. (or to me it is thirst)
  • Ți-e foame. - You are hungry
  • Ți-e sete. - You are thirsty
  • Îe e foame. - He is hungry
  • Îi e sete. - He is thirsty
  • Ne e foame. - We are hungry
  • Ne e sete. - We are thirsty
  • Vă e foame. - You are hungry
  • Vă e sete. - You are thirsty
  • Le e foame. - You are hungry
  • Le e sete. - You are thirsty
duolingo/physical_and_emotional_sensations.txt · Last modified: 2021/01/12 21:08 by 127.0.0.1