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LingoBear creates short Romanian passages on topics you choose. Tap any word for an instant English translation and build your vocabulary as you read. Eastern Romance language, Latin alphabet with ă, â, î, ș, ț, postposed definite article (lupul 'the wolf'), three genders, FSI Category I, ~24M speakers.

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Every word in your Romanian reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help — useful for parsing the case endings on nouns and adjectives.

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Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Romanian reading passage — from Mioriță folklore to Bucharest tech news.

Is Romanian really a Romance language?

Yes — Romanian descends directly from the Vulgar Latin spoken in the Roman province of Dacia. About 70% of its core vocabulary is Romance, with significant Slavic, Hungarian, Turkish and Greek loans from centuries of Balkan contact. It is the only major Romance language to keep a noun case system (with five cases largely realised as two forms: nominative–accusative and genitive–dative), and to use a postposed definite article (om 'man' → omul 'the man').

What grammar features should I expect in Romanian?

Romanian has three grammatical genders — masculine, feminine and a 'neuter' that behaves as masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural — five case forms, and verbs in seven moods. The Latin alphabet uses ă (schwa), â/î (close central vowel) and ș, ț with comma diacritics (officially adopted in 1993 in place of cedilla forms). LingoBear lets you see these in real reading material.