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Learn Romanian grammar. That's the most difficult part.

It is very
difficult even for native speakers to learn all the rules (and the
hundreds of exceptions), but it's not impossible. Here are a few
basic rules:
 The indefinite articles are "un" (masculine, singular), "o"
(feminine, singular) and "nişte" (both genders, plural); definite
articles are formed by adding certain endings to words (such as -
(u)l, -a, -ua, -le), according to certain rules.
 There are 3 genders in Romanian grammar: masculine,
feminine and neuter. Neuter nouns are those that act as masculine
nouns in the singular, and as feminine nouns in the plural.
 There are 5 cases in Romanian: nominative, genitive, dative,
accusative and vocative. Nouns have different forms for each case
(they inflect), according to the gender and number of the noun. The
genitive and dative form are identical, and so are the nominative
and accusative form. The vocative case is used when calling
someone/addressing someone directly (for example calling
somebody's name to catch their attention).
 There are 3 voices in Romanian: the active voice, the passive
voice and the reflexive voice. The reflexive voice is used when the
subject and the direct object of the verb are one and the same;
Example: "Mă îmbrac"="I'm getting dressed". The passive voice is
used only when the subject becomes the object of the action and
the subject of the verb is someone else. Example: "Hoţul a fost
arestat de către poliţie"="The thief was arrested by the police".
 There are 9 verbal moods in Romanian: infinitive, indicative,
subjunctive, conditional, presumptive, imperative, supine, participle,
and gerund. The indicative, subjunctive, conditional, presumptive,
and imperative moods are "personal", in the sense that they can
inflect (to express time, person) and act as a predicative verb in a
sentence, while the other four moods, called non-personal (infinitive,
supine, participle, and gerund), are used as adjectives or adverbs.
o The indicative mood has 8 tenses: present, imperfect,
perfect simple, compound perfect, pluperfect, future, popular future,
and future in the past. Present corresponds to both present simple
and present continuous; imperfect corresponds to past continuous;
the simple perfect tense, corresponding to the past simple, is old-
fashioned and used only in some regions of Romania; it has been
largely replaced with the compound perfect tense, which also
corresponds to past simple and present perfect; and pluperfect
corresponds to past perfect.
o The subjunctive mood has 2 tenses: past and present. It
corresponds to a certain use of infinitive in English (for example,
"Vreau să plec" meaning "I want to leave").
o The conditional mood also has 2 tenses (past and
present). It is used under the same circumstances as in English.
o The presumptive mood has 3 tenses- past, present and
present progressive (the correspondent to the continuous tense in
English); it is used to express a possible action (the usage of the
modal "might" in English).
o The imperative mood has only 1 tense -present- and it is
used under the same circumstances as in English.

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