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Lets have some fun with Black and White :P

Ant with Christmas candy

Black Hole :)

Lets play Football

Lets paint :P

Mosquito

Panda

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Hi World ! There are many times when you get pranked or joked by your friends. Times when you become victim and rest of your friends enjoy. We

ll lets say that I am here to help you do same to your friends. Here are my first three tricks to start your adventure and make your friends look most stupid than ever :P

1.       If you have some bottle of water and you are with your friend. You can open it up and smell it and act like its smelling so bad and make the mouth of it towards your friend to make him smell. As soon as he tries to smell it, you can squash the bottle to spill water on your friend.

2.      You can ask your friend :

You know how I make stupids in suspense?

Your friend will ask obviously : How?

On that you can say: I will tell you tomorrow :P

(You just explained him how you make stupid(him) in suspense :P)

3.      You can say to your friend that people who are having their hand size same as their face have chance to have cancer. For sure your friend would instantly would start measuring his hand putting it on his face. In that moment you can just give his hand little push to make him slap himself on his face :P

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Learn Română  -  All Parts

Part 1 *Introduction

Part 2 *Alphabets

Part 3 *Gender and Vocab Buster-1

Part 4 *GENDER continued

Part 4 * GENDER continued

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Buna şi Salut ! Ce faci ? ;) So we are in December and it’s the most fantastic month of the year from my view. Reason is very simple, its winter, its snow and its month of celebrations as Christmas and New Year is cominggggg. I am so excited about it.

           

        Ok ok done, lets return to our deal ;). Română is waiting :P So in last part, we have learnt few vocabularies and about gender. Today I am gonna go a little deep about it. So as we all know that Română has three genders masculine, feminine and neutar. Now its really very important to know about the gender of every noun we learn because plural of that noun and then article of that noun really depends upon it.  Hmm too much nerdy talk ;)

Anyway, lets come to the point. So the question which haunted me a lot related to  noun was:

                            How to recognize the gender of a noun?

Before we go any further, you need to know one important fact about neutar gender in  Română as we dont have such gender in English. So neutar gender behaves like masculine gender in singular form of noun and like feminine gender in plural form of noun. I will explain it more in this post but first lets come to our above question.

Now, Romanians have a trick for recognizing gender of noun which I call – One Two Trick. Before I explain the trick, you need to know that its not useful for beginners but it will come in real handy when you will be little experienced in this language like me :P. If you are still interested then Read More otherwise you can skip this part.

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       So in Română, when you say “one something” you use un if that something is masculine gender and o if that something is feminine gender. Same goes for when you say “two something” you use doi if that something is masculine gender and două if that something is feminine gender. For example:

 Cartof (Potato) and Cartofi (Potatoes) are masculine. So we say:

Un cartof (one potato)  and  Doi cartofi (two potatoes).

Pară (Pear) and Pere (Pears) are feminine. So we say:

O pară (one pear) and două pere (two pears).

Now if the noun is neutar then you use un when its singular and două when its plural as neutar behaves like masculine in singular and feminine in plural. For example:

Măr is neutar gender. So we say:

Un măr (one apple) and două mere (two apples).

So this is whats the trick romanian uses, they make the plural of the particular noun of which they want to find the gender. Now they use number one and two with them, and depending upon the following combinations they find, they decide the gender:

One	Two	Gender
O	Două	Feminine
Un	Doi	Masculine
Un	Două	Neutar

Now its clear why its not useful for beginners because they don’t know yet how to make plural but in future this trick will come in real handy.

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         So our Română learners, the answer of the above question is tough as this romance language hasn’t got pretty tight rules for recognizing gender but still are few facts which are applied in most of the cases which i am gonna list out to help you recognizing the gender of a noun.  So pay attention ;)

        First you need to differenciate between masculine/ neutar and feminine then I will tell you how to differentiate between masculine and neutar.

Rule No 1

Almost all nouns which end in a consonant or “u” are masculine or neutar.

Almost all nouns which end in - a/ă/e  are feminine.

Note: When we talk about recognizing gender of a noun, we talk about its singular form.

Examples:

Cartof (potato) ends in “f” which is a consonant so its masculine.

Măr (Apple) ends in “r” which is a consonant so its neutar.

Pară (Pear) ends in “ă” so its feminine.

Rule No 2

Nouns ending in “i” can be any of the three genders but mostly decided by its nature of being.

For Example:

Unchi (Uncle) is masculine while tanti (Aunt) is feminine and taxi (taxi) is neutar.  

         Now as you can see that all words (Unchi, tanti and taxi) end in “i” but as uncle represents male entity thats why unchi is masculine. Same way as  Aunt represents female entity, tanti is feminine and last but not least, taxi doesnt really indicates any certain male or female entity thats why its neutar.

Now for differentiating between masculine and neutar :

Rule No 3

Most of nouns ending in consonant or “u” are masculine if they represents male entity otherwise it can be either neutar or masculine.

Thats why they are most confusing but mostly if the noun represents a non living thing, it comes under neutar gender.

So as now you know few words in Română, lets have a look on them to decide what gender they are:

Word	Meaning	Gender
Fasole	Bean	Feminine
Mazăre	Pea	Feminine
Ridiche	Radish	Feminine
Sare	Salt	Feminine
Roşie	Tomato	Feminine
Lămâie	Lemon	Feminine
Rodie	Pomegranade	Feminine
Gutuie	Quince	Feminine
Varză	Cabbage	Feminine
Conopidă	Cauliflower	Feminine
Vânătă	Eggplant	Feminine
Ciupercă	Mashroom	Feminine
Sfeclă	Beetroot	Feminine
Agrișă	Gooseberry	Feminine
Ceapă	Onion	Feminine
Dudă	Mulberry	Feminine
Portocală	Orange	Feminine
Piersică	Peach	Feminine
Pară	Pear	Feminine
Caisă	Apricot	Feminine
Afină	Blueberry	Feminine
Mură	Blackberry	Feminine
Cireașă	Cherry	Feminine
Secară	Rye	Feminine
Castană	Chestnut	Feminine
Zmeură	Raspberry	Feminine
Căpșună	Strawberry	Feminine
Arahidă	Peanut	Feminine
Brânză	Cheese	Feminine
Îngheţată	Ice-cream	Feminine
Stafidă	Raisin	Feminine
Apă	Water	Feminine
Alună	Filbert	Feminine
Salată	Salad	Feminine
Banană	Banana	Feminine
Sâmbătă	Saturday	Feminine
Duminică	Sunday	Feminine
Extra	Extra	Feminine
Nucă de cocos	Coconut	Feminine
Floarea-soarelui	Sunflower	Feminine
Nectarină	Nectarine	Feminine
Clementină/Mandarină	Clementine/Tangerine	Feminine
Margarină	Margarine	Feminine
Creamă	Cream	Feminine
Ceapă verde	Green/Spring onion	Feminine
Cartof	Potato	Masculine
Dovleac	Pumpkin	Masculine
Morcov	Carrot	Masculine
Măslin	Olive	Masculine
Merișor	Cranberry	Masculine
Smochin	Fig	Masculine
Orz	Barley	Masculine
Porumb	Corn	Masculine
Ovăz	Oats	Masculine
Orez	Rice	Masculine
Ananas	Pineapple	Masculine
Susan	Sesame seed	Masculine
Fistic	Pistachio	Masculine
Gogoșar	Capsicum	Masculine
Piper	Pepper	Masculine
Iaurt	Yogurt	Masculine
Cartof dulce	Sweet Potato	Masculine
Ou	Egg	Neutar
Ghimbir	Ginger	Neutar
Unt	Butter	Neutar
Griș	Semolina	Neutar
Măr	Apple	Neutar
Zahăr	Sugar	Neutar

So as you saw that neutar really is unpridictable sometimes and creates a lot of confusion with masculine, thats why you need to remember almost all the neutar words you come across. In time you will get used to.

         Now, I want to dicuss about words which you might have noticed and got curious about:

nucă de cocos and floarea-soarelui , question is why we used ă and a to decide their gender instead of using s(cocos) and i(soarelui) respectively? Answer is in their meaning. Nucă de cocos means nut of coco, so here word “nut” is what in focus thats why word “nucă” decides the gender. Now floarea-soarelui means flower of sun, again word “flower” is in focus thats why word “floarea” decides its gender.

        In word cartof dulce, dulce(sweet) is adjective of noun cartof. Thats why “cartof” decides the gender. 

        Now lets see some familiar nouns which can be little tough to swallow by their gender. But as I said, you need to remember these uncommon:

Word	Meaning	Gender
Caju	Cashew	Masculine
Grâu	Wheat	Masculine

  

These words end in “u”, that means it could be neutar but even if they don’t necessary represent male entity, they are masculine.

 

Word	Meaning	Gender
Ardei iute	Chilli	Masculine
Ardei gras	Capsicum	Masculine
Usturoi	Garlic	Masculine
Luni	Monday	Feminine
Marţi	Tuesday	Feminine
Miercuri	Wednesday	Feminine
Joi	Thursday	Feminine
Vineri	Friday	Feminine
Ceai	Tea	Neutar

These words end in “i”, that means it could be all neutar or feminine or masculine but this is how it is and you need to rememeber them this way.

In Ardei iute and Ardei gras, Ardei decides the gender because iute(spicy) and gras(thick) work as an adjective so ardei remains in focus.

Word	Meaning	Gender
Castravete	Cocumber	Masculine
Pepene galben	Melon/Cantaloupe	Masculine
Pepene verde	Watermelon	Masculine
Fasole	Bean	Feminine
Fasole verde	Green bean	Feminine
Lămâie verde	Lime	Feminine
Lapte	Milk	Neutar

  

Each of above listed words end in “e” which gives them perfect right to be feminine. Instead, they behave as mentioned. Again something to rememeber.

         In words pepene galben, pepene verde, fasole verde and lămâie verde, galben(yellow) and verde(green) are adjectives of nouns pepene, fasole and lămâie thats why those nouns get to decide the gender not adjectives.

         As I said that the rules which I have explained here are followed by most of nouns so if you encounter an exception, note it down and rememeber it. Remember that experience is the key of success.

         So here my this part ends. I have given you enough knowledge about recogniging gender of noun so go on and practice it. It will really help you to get forward towards mastering this sweet language. Good luck!

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