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INTRODUCTION
Salut, and welcome to Romanian Survival Phrases, brought to you by RomanianPod101.com
This course is designed to equip you with the language skills and knowledge to enable you to get the most out of your visit to Romania. You'll be surprised at how far a little Romanian will go.
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In this lesson, we’re going to continue with counting from 11 to 100.
BODY
Let’s just quickly review 0-10.
0 zero
1 unu
una if the thing you’re counting is feminine
next we have:
2 doi for masculine words and
două for feminine
3 trei
4 patru
5 cinci
6 şase
7 şapte
8 opt
9 nouă
10 zece
Now let’s continue with 11 to 20.
11 unsprezece
(slow) un-spre-ze-ce.
unsprezece
This word may sound very difficult when you first hear it, but in reality, it is very simple.
Unsprezece is made up of three words. They are un, spre, and zece.
Un means one.
Spre is translated as “to” or “towards”.
(slow) Spre.
One more time:
Spre.
Literally translated, unsprezece is “1 towards 10.”
Here are the next numbers.
12 doisprezece
(slow) doi-spre-ze-ce
doisprezece
13 treisprezece
(slow) trei-spre-ze-ce
treisprezece
14 paisprezece
(slow) pai-spre-ze-ce
paisprezece
15 cincisprezece
(slow) cinci-spre-ze-ce
cincisprezece
16 şaisprezece
(slow) șai-spre-ze-ce
șaisprezece
17 şaptesprezece
(slow) şap-te-spre-ze-ce
şaptesprezece
18 optsprezece
(slow) opt-spre-ze-ce
optsprezece
19 nouăsprezece
(slow) nouă-spre-ze-ce
nouăsprezece
20 douăzeci
(slow) do-uă-zeci
douăzeci
You probably noticed that the number twenty sounds different.
Douăzeci is made up of two other words. The first one is două, which means “two.”
(slow) Do-uă.
Două .
The second word is zeci, which is the plural form of the number ten.
(slow) Zeci.
Zeci.
Douăzeci is literally translated as two tens.
Because the word zeci is feminine, we use două, the feminine word for “two”, in front of the word. Let’s count in tens up to one hundred, so that we can see the similarities.
10 zece
(slow) ze-ce
zece
20 douăzeci
(slow) do-uă-zeci
douăzeci
30 treizeci
(slow) trei-zeci
treizeci
40 patruzeci
(slow)pa-tru-zeci
patruzeci
50 cincizeci
(slow)cinci-zeci
cincizeci
60 şaizeci
(slow) şai-zeci
şaizeci
70 şaptezeci
(slow) şap-te-zeci
şaptezeci
80 optzeci
(slow) opt-zeci
optzeci
90 nouăzeci
(slow) no-uă-zeci
nouăzeci
Finally, we have o sută, which is “one hundred.”
100 o sută
(slow) o su-tă
o sută
Now that we have learned the tens, let’s learn to count the numbers that are in between.
21 sounds like this: douăzeci și unu.
Douăzeci means “twenty”.
(slow) Două-zeci.
Douăzeci.
Și means “and”.
Next we have unu which means “one”.
The whole number is douăzeci și unu, which is literally translated as “twenty and one”.
Let’s make some sentences using numbers now.
Here is the first one:
“I have fifty euros.”
Am cincizeci de euro.
Let’s break it down:
(slow) Am cinci-zeci de e-u-ro.
Once again:
Am cincizeci de euro.
Am is a present tense form of the verb that means “to have.”
The next word, cincizeci, means "fifty."
(slow) Cincizeci.
Cincizeci.
The last word de euro, are literally translated as "of euro."
All together, we have
Am cincizeci de euro.
Let’s try making the Romanian word for “fifty–three.” “Fifty” is cincizeci and “three” is trei. Putting them together, we have cincizeci şi trei or “fifty-three.”
Let’s break it down:
(slow) Cinci-zeci şi trei.
And once more:
Cincizeci şi trei.
Let’s use cincizeci şi trei to say “I have fifty-three euros”:
Am cincizeci și trei de euro.
Let’s break that down:
(slow) Am cinci-zeci şi trei de e-u-ro.
And at natural speed:
Am cincizeci şi trei de euro.
Am is translated as “I have”.
We just learned that cincizeci şi trei means “fifty-three.”
(slow) Cinci-zeci şi trei.
Cincizeci şi trei.
The next words, de euro, are literally translated as “of euro.”
The whole sentence, then, is...
Am cincizeci şi trei de euro.
As you probably noticed in this last sentence, we added de after cincizeci si trei or “fifty-three”. De is used after numbers starting with 20. All the numbers that come after 20 will have de after them when we use them for counting something. The numbers that come before 20 never have de after them.
REVIEW
Okay, to close out this lesson, we'd like you to practice what you've just learned. I'll provide you with the English equivalent of the phrase and you're responsible for saying it aloud. You have a few seconds before I give you the answer, so mult noroc , which means "Good luck!" in Romanian.
“I have fifty euros.”
(3 secs)Am cincizeci de euro.
(slow) Am cinci-zeci de e-u-ro.
Am cincizeci de euro.
“I have fifty-three euros”
(3 secs)Am cincizeci şi trei de euro.
(slow) Am cinci-zeci şi trei de e-u-ro.
Am cincizeci şi trei de euro.

Outro

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