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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.
Now before we jump in, remember to stop by RomanianPod101.com.
There, you’ll find the accompanying PDF lesson notes and additional info in the post. If you stop by, be sure to leave us a comment.
In this lesson we’re going to cover counting from zero to ten. When it comes to numbers, the Romanian language has some particularities, but there is nothing difficult about them. Let’s see what it’s all about.
BODY
0 Zero.
(slow) Ze-ro.
Zero.
1 Unu.
(slow) Unu.
Unu.
If the thing you’re counting is feminine, you say:
Una.
(slow) U-na.
Una.
2 Doi.
(slow) Doi.
Doi.
If the thing you’re counting is feminine, say:
Două
(slow) Do-uă.
Două.
3 Trei.
(slow) Trei.
Trei.
4 Patru.
(slow) Pa-tru.
Patru.
5 Cinci.
(slow) Cinci.
Cinci.
6 Şase.
(slow) Şa-se.
Şase.
7 Şapte.
(slow) Şap-te.
Şapte.
8 Opt.
(slow) Opt.
Opt.
9 Nouă.
(slow) No-uă.
Nouă.
10 Zece.
(slow) Ze-ce.
Zece.
As you already heard, the words for number one are unu if the thing you’re counting is masculine and una if the thing you’re counting is a feminine one. Romanians also use other words for expressing the number one. They are O and Un.
O is used for feminine items and Un for masculine items.
These two short words are literally translated in English as “a” or “an,” and they will show the singular nature of the thing that you want to count. In this lesson, we will learn how to do that.
First of all, let’s hear the words again:
O
And the second one:
Un
Now let’s hear them together near a word. For example “one woman” in Romanian will be: O femeie and “one man”: Un bărbat.
Now let’s hear the translation for “two women”. Because the word “women” is feminine, we will use două to count.
Două femei.
Two men will be:
Doi bărbați.
Now let’s hear an example with the number three.
Three women is:
Trei femei.
Let’s break it down:
(slow) Trei fe-mei.
Once more:
Trei femei.
Three men will be:
Trei bărbați.
The gender changes only when the numbers one and two are used.
Let’s hear the counting for feminine words again.
O femeie.
Două femei.
Trei femei.
Now for masculine:
Un bărbat.
Doi bărbaţi.
Trei bărbaţi.
Numbers are extremely useful, especially when you’re shopping.
Now let’s imagine you want to buy two bottles of wine. You will say “Two bottles of wine, please”, which is
Două sticle de vin vă rog.
Let’s break it down:
(slow) Do-uă sti-cle de vin vă rog.
Once more:
Două sticle de vin vă rog.
Două, as you already know, is the feminine form for the number “two.”
Sticle means “bottles.”
(slow) Sti-cle.
Sticle.
De means “of”and vin, as you may remember from our previous lessons, means “wine.”
(slow) Vin.
Vin.
And of course we have vă rog at the end, which is translated as “please”.
The whole request, then, is
Două sticle de vin vă rog.
Now let’s imagine you are buying one delicious sweet bread. The sweet bread is called cozonac. The phrase will sound like this:
Un cozonac vă rog. The English translation will be:
“One sweet bread please.”
Let’s break that down:
(slow)Un co-zo-nac vă rog.
Once again:
Un cozonac vă rog
Un means “one.”
Cozonac, as I mentioned before, means “sweet bread.”
(slow) Co-zo-nac.
cozonac.
At the end is vă rog, which means “please”.
All together, it’s
Un cozonac vă rog.
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.
“One woman.”
(3 sec)O femeie.
(slow) O fe-me-ie.
O femeie
“One man.”
(3 sec) Un bărbat
(slow) Un băr-bat.
Un bărbat.
“Two bottles of wine, please.”
(3 sec) Două sticle de vin vă rog.
(slow) Do-uă sti-cle de vin vă rog.
Două sticle de vin vă rog.
“One sweet bread, please.”
(3 sec)Un cozonac vă rog.
(slow) Un co-zo-nac vă rog.
Un cozonac vă rog.

Outro
All right, that's all for this lesson!
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