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You need to make sure what you're learning is actually what you think you're learning; The blog post says "sobolanul" means "rat" but it actually means "the rat
by cbg0 12y ago
You need to make sure what you're learning is actually what you think you're learning; The blog post says "sobolanul" means "rat" but it actually means "the rat", "sobolan" is "rat".
- jacquesm 12y ago100% correct, the suffix 'ul' indicates the article is present. I'll correct the post. Thanks!
- threedaymonk 12y agoThat's just the convention in how words are presented to learners in different languages, I think, and it's surely obvious to anyone with even a few minutes of exposure to Romanian that -ul is one of the enclitics for the definite article. Anyway, I don't know that's even a useful distinction on its own. The difference between "the X" and "X" doesn't map very well across languages, even within Europe. English drops the article in many circumstances in which Romance languages use it.