Learn how to say "not" and "don't have" in Romanian
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| Bună tuturor! Sunt Raluca. Hi everybody! I’m Raluca. |
| Welcome to RomanianPod101.com’s Româna în 3 minute. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Romanian. |
| In our previous lessons, you learned how to use the verbs a fi and a avea. In this lesson, you’re going to learn how to turn these two verbs into their negative forms in order to say "I'm not" and "I don't have." |
| So let's take an example. Imagine you are about to go to a party with a Romanian friend. You ask him if he is ready, and he answers Nu sunt gata. meaning “I’m not ready.” |
| Then, you ask him if he has a car to use to go to the party and he says Nu am mașină. meaning “I don’t have a car.” |
| Let’s look at these two negative sentences. |
| [slowly] Nu sunt gata. |
| [slowly] Nu am mașină. |
| Did you catch some similar words in these two sentences? |
| Right! In each sentence, you have one more word, nu. It’s simple, right? Just add the word nu before the verb. |
| Now here’s another example: |
| Sunt italian. This means “I am Italian.” Let’s turn it into a negative statement. |
| Nu sunt italian. “I’m not Italian.” |
| As you can see, nothing changes. You just add nu before the verb! It doesn’t matter which verb you are using, the rule is always the same. Very easy, right? |
| So now, how would you say “I don’t want cake”? For your reference, I want cake in Romanian is Vreau o prăjitură. |
| [slowly] Vreau o prăjitură. |
| (pause) That’s right! Just put nu in before vreau and you’re done! |
| Nu vreau o prăjitură. |
| [slowly] Nu vreau o prăjitură. |
| Easy, don't you think? So now you can turn many sentences into their negative forms just by adding Nu. There are a couple of exceptions with the verbs “to like” and “to love”. But we will learn more about these in the next few lessons. |
| Now it’s time for Raluca’s Insights. |
| There is another way to reply negatively. |
| It’s also very easy - all you have to do is add another Nu to the beginning of a negative sentence. For example, Nu, nu am mașină meaning “No, I don’t have car.” and |
| Nu, nu vreau o prăjitură. meaning “No, I don’t want cake.” This way, you will put more emphasis on your denial. |
| Get ready for the next lesson, because we are going to study a really important part of the Romanian language – using adjectives. |
| I’ll be waiting for you in the next Româna în 3 minute lesson. Pe curând! See you soon! |
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