Romania part IV - To ul, or not to ul, that is the question

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Romanian is simple, just add ul and you are home

We might as well admit it right away, the contents of this blog entry is silly and we hope we won't offend anybody. There is no nudity, no profanity and to the best of our knowledge it contains no foul language so it's not right out offensive. But you might find it silly so if you are the kind of person who take offence when grown people are being silly you might not want to spend more time reading this blog entry. That was the end of the disclaimer. If you go on reading from here and later on decide that this entry is nothing but a load of garbage, don't hold it against us, because you have been warned.



We find that the Romanian language has a cute detail. They often end their words with "-ul". To us this looks a bit funny. Maybe it is only we who thinks it funny and that all of you think there is nothing strange at all about ending a word with "-ul". At least if you are Romanian you are guaranteed to find nothing amusing at all in this. We think it looks so funny that we have decided to put up a blog entry with only photos of words that end with "-ul".



What makes these words even more funny to us is that the Romanian words often are very similar to their English counterparts. For instance

English: theatre Romainian: teatrul

English: salon Romanian: salonul

English: museum Romanian: muzeul



So it seems like if you wish to say something in Romanian you can just pick the English word and add "-ul" to it and you have a pretty good chance of actually getting it right.



When we were in Romania we didn't know what the "-ul" ending stands for. We tried Google Translate and got the same answer no matter if we wrote a word with or without the "-ul" ending. Later we asked Ake's colleague, who speaks Romanian, and she told us that "-ul" has the same meaning in Romanian as "the" has in English. So there it is. It is nothing exciting at all. We actually guessed that "-ul" was the Romanian way of indicating definite article.



If you thought this blog entry was stupid, please do not jump to the conclusion that we are stupid. We know we are being silly here but we actually think this blog entry is a little bit fun. If you disliked it it means that our kind of humour in this case did not appeal to you. We applologize for that and hopefully you find some of our other blog entries more to your liking. Most of them are more mature than this.

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Photos

Teatrul
Theatre

Turistul
Tourist

Castelul
Castle

Fumatul
Smoking

Accesul
Access

Trustul
Trust

Ansamblul
Ensamble

Muzeul
Museum
Peles Museum is also featured in one of the previous blog entries from Romania

Cimitrul
Cemetery
Vesel Cemetery, also known as Merry Cemetery, is quite fantastic, We have therefore given it an entire blog entry of its own

Clientul
Client

Situl
Site
The archaeological site of Histria will also appear in a future blog entry

Parcul
Parc

Tribunalul
Tribunal

Crosul and Vaserul
We received this T-shirt when we ran the race Vaser Valley Run. Vaserul stands for Vaser River or Vaser Valley. Crosul we really don't know what it stands for,

Memorialul
Memorial

Partidul
Party

Salonul
Salon

Telefonul
Telephone

Turnul
Tower

Ursuletul
Ursul means bear so Ursuletul, seeing the sign being for a toy shop, might mean teddy bear or small bear. Google Translate doesn't translate "Ursuletul" but translates "Ursule" as "Teddy bear"

Bastionul
Bastion

Ministerul
Ministry

Complexul
Complex

Programul
Program

Dormitorul
Dormitory

Istanbul
...and that one was a joke. Our little gift to you who made it all the way to the end