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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 use Romanian adjectives.
In this lesson, we will continue talking about some of the most common Romanian verbs. You will hear these ones all the time!
The verb you will learn in this lesson is a merge, which means "to go" and we will use it to talk about many different destinations. So let’s go!
To say you’re going somewhere in Romanian, the pattern is Merg la.... plus your destination.
Merg is the first person form of the verb a merge, meaning "to go" in the present tense. It is equivalent to “I am going”
La connects the verb and the destination, so it’s like “to” in English.
So imagine someone asks you ¿Unde mergi în vacanță? This means "Where are you going on vacation?"
If you are going to the beach, for example, you will say Merg la plajă.
[slowly] Merg la plajă.
That’s Merg, which is “I am going”, and then la, meaning “to”, then plajă, which is “the beach”.
Pretty simple, right? Let’s hear it again.
Merg la plajă.
Let’s see some more examples.
Merg la bancă. means “I’m going to the bank.”
Merg la farmacie. means “I’m going to the pharmacy.”
El merge foarte încet. means “He walks very slowly.” And...
Avionul merge fără oprire. means “The airplane flies non-stop.”
As you can see, a merge has different meanings beyond “to go”.
Let’s take a look at what can you say with the verb a merge in Romanian.
Sometimes it can mean “to attend”, as in a merge la facultate, meaning “go to college” or a merge la școală, meaning “go to school”.
Sometimes, it can also mean “to be harmonious”, or “matching” as in roșul merge cu negrul. which means “Red goes with black”.
You’ll also find this verb in different expressions like merge treaba meaning “it works well” or merge mână în mână which means “to belong together”.
Now it’s time for Raluca’s Insights.
If you want to say you’re going somewhere with somebody, you have to add the word cu, which means “with”. For example-
Merg cu fratele meu. meaning “I’m going with my brother”.
In this lesson, we learned how to use the verb a merge and the correct linking words that go with it to talk about your destination.
Next time, we’ll learn another very useful verb, a face. Do you remember what this verb means? I’ll be waiting for you with the answer in the next Româna în 3 minute lesson.
Pe curând! See you soon!

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