Learn how to ask about your possessions 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 the last lesson, you learned how to talk about age using the verb a avea, meaning “to have.” |
| You can probably guess that a avea can also be used to talk about things you own. That will be the topic of this lesson. |
| We’ll start with ¿Ai mașină? |
| [slowly] ¿Ai mașină? |
| This means “Do you have a car?” |
| Let’s take a closer look at this question. |
| Ai, means “Do you have”. It is the conjugated form of the verb a avea for the 2nd person singular. |
| And then we have mașină, which means “car”. |
| Let’s say you *do* have a car, how can you reply in Romanian? |
| Just turn the verb a avea into the 1st person — it’s really simple! You did it during the last lesson to talk about your age, remember? |
| The first person of a avea is Am... |
| So in this case you can reply: |
| Da, am mașină. meaning “Yes, I have a car” or Am mașină. or meaning “I have a car.” |
| [slowly] Da, am mașină. |
| [slowly] Am mașină. |
| You can say Da, meaning “yes”, but it's not necessary because your reply is already affirmative. |
| Now it’s time for Raluca’s Insights. |
| If you want to ask for something that you think someone has, you can also use this sentence. Here’s an example. |
| Ai câine, nu? This literally means “You have a dog, right?” |
| You only have to add the word nu after the sentence. It makes the whole sentence sound like a question, even if you know or can guess the answer. |
| In recent lessons, we have talked about the verb a fi meaning “to be”, and a avea, meaning “to have”. |
| Next time, we’ll learn how to use these two verbs in their negative forms in order to say “I’m not” and “I don’t have”. |
| I'll be waiting for you in the next Româna în 3 minute lesson. |
| Pe curând! See you soon! |
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