Hey, it’s a fair question and I certainly get asked it a lot. I met a couple of nice young women at Sunday’s book party who clearly were thinking it even if they were too polite to say it. I have a few people I’ve known for years who still think this way and one of them told me so today to my face. It’s … Continue reading Why Am I So Positive About Romania?
Yesterday we talked about the Possessive A and now it’s time to follow up with a similar grammar entity – the personal pronoun. In English these are fairly simple – my (mine), your(s), his, hers, ours and theirs. Spanish likewise, mio(s)/mia(s), nuestro(s)/nuestra(s), etcetera. Romanian is a little more complicated of course ;) Let’s start off with the words for “my”, which vary by gender and … Continue reading His, Hers, Mine, Yours, Ours and Theirs: Part 1
You know, I spent years living in Romania collecting experiences and anecdotes, I wrote hundreds of posts about this country, I quit my job to write a book about traveling and visiting Romania and in the last three weeks I’ve met tons of people to discuss this very subject, right down to giving a couple of hours of my life to do an interview with … Continue reading A Few Tips on Flying to Romania (and elsewhere)
Part one can be found here. A few months ago, I mentioned that on the back of all Romanian money it says Banca Nationala a Romaniei and someone asked what that “a” means, and how to use it. As we know quite well, Romanian is a language with declinations, which means that the “receiving” noun has a special form which can denote possession. Ex: Centrul … Continue reading The Possessive “A”
The other night at the book party a couple of people I’ve written about many times on this website attended and it was great catching up with them. One of them used a word I knew quite well but had forgotten about: mess. It’s a local short form of the longer “Yahoo Messenger”, the instant messaging program, although sometimes Romanians just call any IM program … Continue reading Slang Word of the Day: Mess
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