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ROUMANIAN GRAMMAR.
ADVERBS.
The place of an adverb in a sentence is immediately following the verb which it qualifies:
| Alexandru se află bine, | ‘Alexander is well.’ |
| Passerea căntă frumos, | ‘The bird sings beautifully.’ |
But when we speak with enthusiasm the adverb precedes the verb:
Frumos maĭ căntă passerea!‘How beautifully the bird sings!’
When the sentence contains negatives, as nimenĭ, ‘nobody,’ nicăirĭ, ‘nowhere,’ etc., the verb must always be preceded by the negative nu:
Nimenĭ nu e a cassă,‘Nobody is at home.’
PREPOSITIONS.
The preposition a precedes the infinitive when the latter stands alone, or as subject of a sentence:
a ara, a crede, etc.
a minṭi e ruṣinos, ‘It is shameful to lie.’
It is also used before the genitive singular, and in many expressions which can only be learned by practice:
| Sunt a cassă, | ‘I am at home.’ |
| Se pregăteṣte a plóe, | ‘It is going to rain.’ |
| Presimt a nenorocire, | ‘I have a presentiment of coming sorrow.’ |
| Miróssă a trandafir, | ‘It smells like a rose.’ |
| etc. | |
