• In this unit you will learn about :

• • To Have

• • Intonation

• • Negation

• • Plurals

Merve Kaya, a Turkish student coming on an Erasmus mobility , arrives at Otopeni Airport in Bucharest and is going through passport and visa formalities at Passport Control .
Ofițerul: Bună ziua, aveţi viză?
Passport Officer: Good afternoon. Have you got a visa?
Merve: Bună ziua. Nu, nu am viză. De unde să iau viză?
Good afternoon. No, 1 don 't have a visa. Where can 1 get one?
Ofițerul : Chiar de aici.
Passport Officer: Right here.
Merve: Şi cât costă viza?
And how much does a visa cost?
Ofițerul : Patruzeci de dolari americani (After paying) Poftiţi. Cu ce scop veniţi în România?
Passport Officer: Forty US dollars . (After paying) Here you are. What is the purpose of your visit to Romania?
Merve : Sunt studentă Erasmus la Universitatea “ Constantin Brâncuși” din Târgu-Jiu.
I am an Erasmus student at Constantin Brâncuși University of Târgu-Jiu.
Ofițerul: Mulţumesc. Acum puteţi să mergeţi la ghişeul de 'Control Paşapoarte' şi apoi la banda rulantă pentru bagaje.
Passport Officer: Thank you. You can now go to the Passport Control desk, and then to the baggage reclaim conveyor.

In the dialogue Merve was asked:
Aveţi viză?
Have you got a visa?
and she replied:

Nu am viză
I don't have a visa

Here are the forms of a avea, 'to have'

1.Completati spațiile libere cu formele corespunzătoare ale verbului A AVEA:
( Fill in the blanks with the appropriate form of the verb A AVEA - to have - )
1(Noi) AVEM o casa mare.
2.Câte ( how many ) camere…………….(voi) ?
3.(Eu) ……….un apartament la Târgu-Jiu.
4.(Tu)……..mașină?
5.Ei……….o casă la munte.
6.( Noi)…….o profesoara din Romania.
7……….bere?
8.El………..o casă frumoasă.
9.Voi………..colegi noi?
10.Ele……….ore interesante.
2.Traduceți propozițiile în limba engleză.
(Translate these sentences into English)

Intonation

The simplest way of asking something in Romanian is to raise the tone of your voice on the last syllable of the sentence: Vorbiți englezește? (Do you speak English?)
There are basically three patterns of intonation.
The first is found in simple questions where the voice is raised to a high pitch on unde:
Unde este?
(Where is it?)
The second occurs in questions to which we can expect the answer yes or no.
Ai cursuri azi?
(Do you have classes today?)
Nu aveti cafea?
(Don't you have coffee?)
Here the high pitch is given to “cafea” .
The third is in normal statements:
Nu vreau ceai.
(I don't want tea.)
Here there is a slight fall in pitch at “ceai”.

Negation

The negative particle “nu” is placed before a verb to indicate negation. We can illustrate this by first of all taking a simple affirmative statement such as
Sunt româncă.
I am Romanian.
To say “I am not Turkish “we place nu before sunt,
i.e. Nu sunt turcoaică.
Note :The word for no( nu) may be reduced before the forms of a avea. In such cases it is followed in writing by a hyphen:
Traduceți următoarele propoziții în limba engleză și spuneți dacă sunt Compare:

Traduceți următoarele propoziții în limba engleză și spuneți dacă sunt adevărate și corectați pe cele greșite (Translate into English and say if the sentences are right or wrong and correct the wrong ones):
1.Am abonament Netflix .
2. Am pat-dublu la cămin
3.Nu am fotoliu in camera de zi
4.Am baie cu jacuzzi acasă
5.Am două televizoare la cămin
6.Nu am filtru de cafea acasă
7.Nu am gumă în rucsac.
8.Am ore astazi.
9.Nu îmi place sportul.
10.Nu vreau bere.

Plurals

Romanian nouns have distinct endings to indicate more than one object or person and, unlike in English, they vary according to gender.
Broadly speaking, to mark the plural, masculine nouns take the ending -i, feminine nouns the endings -e or -i, and neuter endings -e or -uri.
m (= masculine)
Un român(a Romanian)  doi români(two Romanians)
Un grec( a Greek)     doi greci( two Greeks)

f (= feminine)
o fată( a girl)     două fete(two girls
o bere(one beer)   două beri( two beers)
n (= neuter)

un bilet( a ticket)  două bilete(two tickets)
un taxi( a taxi)   două taxiuri(two taxis)

Practice:

1.Give the plural forms of the following words: 1 paşaport (n)
2.coleg(m)
3.limbă(f)
4 bagaj(n)
5.școală(f)
6.profesor(m)
7 scară(f)
8. dolar(m)
9.mesaj(n)
10.lună(f)
2.Alcătuiți 10 propoziții cu verbul a avea și apoi treceți-le la negativ.
(Make up 10 sentences with the verb to have and then turn them into the negative).

A Glimpse of Romanian Culture:

Urbanism, Architecture, and Space Use

Bucharest is the capital and largest city of Romania, situated in the southern section of the country. There are a few seventeenth- and eighteenth-century churches, as well as a university founded in 1864, but the communists destroyed most of the historic buildings with concrete residential complexes and skyscrapers. Bucharest was a cultural hub known as "the Paris of the East" between the two world wars, but its nature has changed to become more industrial and commercial. The National Art Museum, national theater and opera companies, and the country's largest university are all located there.
Other important cities include Brasov, an industrial center in the Transylvanian Alps; Constanta, a port on the Black Sea; Cluj-Napoca in central Transylvania; and Timisoara in the eastern Banat region.
Brasov, an industrial city in the Transylvanian Alps; Constanța, a Black Sea port; Cluj-Napoca in central Transylvania; and Timișoara in the eastern Banat region are all prominent cities.
The majority of people in cities live in high-rise apartment complexes. Housing is scarce, and living quarters are cramped. Heating is frequently insufficient. Most residences in the countryside are two- or three-room timber buildings with no plumbing or electricity. Roofs made of red tiles, corrugated tin, or wooden shingles are common in rural areas. They are normally white in Moldavia and Walachia, while diverse colors are used in Transylvania. People used to build houses almost totally underground to shield themselves against Turkish raids in prior ages.
(https://www.everyculture.com/No-Sa/Romania.html)