ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <BASE HREF="roverbs.html"> <meta charset=iso-8859-2> <title>Romanian Verbs</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#333333" text="#FFFFFF" link="0099FF" alink="#0066FF" vlink="#0066FF" topmargin="0" bottommargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0"> <table align=center width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0> <tr> <td><center><h1>Romanian Verbs</h1></center></td> </tr> </table> <table align=center width=60% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0> <tr> <td><p>Romanian verbs have 6 different categories: a verbs, e verbs, ea verbs, i verbs, î verbs, and irregular.<br> The <b>infinitive</b> is the ending of a verb. I told the 5 different infinitive endings. Each of these verbs have different <b>conjugation</b> rules. A conjugation of a verb is changing the infinitive form to the form for a certain person view. An irregular verb doesn't follow the original rules set for the certain verb infinitive ending, so therefore we call it "irregular". :).</p> <p>In English, our verbs (let's say talk) only has one form of conjugation in the present tense which is in the third person singular (he/she/it talks). It adds an "s" at the end. Romanian has 6 different conjugations to describe the view of the action of the person.</p> <p>Example: schia (ski) is an -a verb, so for the 1st person singular view, -a would change to -ez --> Eu schiez.</p> <p>a schia is the pure form of the verb which is like "to ski" which is the pure form of the verb in English. <p>In Romanian, you usually drop the subject pronoun because the conjugation will tell its person form. Eu schiez --> Schiez. However, if you want to be more polite or to emphasize the person doing the action, the subject pronoun does not need to be dropped.</p> <p>Romanian does not have a progressive tense, or an emphatic tense. Progressive tense is the -ing conjugation in English. There is no "I am speaking" equivalent in Romanian. The emphatic tense is adding "do" before the verb, and after the subject pronoun. There is no "I do speak" equilavent in Romanian. Those usually translate literally to "I speak" for present tense in Romanian, but can mean all "I speak/I am speaking/I do speak". </p></td> </tr> </table> <br> <table align=center width=60% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0> <tr> <td align=center><br><h2><a href="time.html">Previous</a> <a href="colors.html">Next</a><br><a href="index.htm">Home</a></td> </tr> </table> </body></html>