A duce cu preşul – to carry someone on a carpet – it might feel good but it is a ploy to fool someone and the idiom describes the action of cheating or deceiving someone. When you have a friend that is lying around doing nothing or wasting time when there are more important things to do, the right expression will be Freacă menta which means that they are wasting time. A avea minte creață – A Curly Mind A lua țeapă – to receive a spike – when someone does receive one it means they have been fooled. The one doing the fooling, which can cover financial dealings, is called țepar (spiker).

Rafting is usually done on rough waters, and it is ideal for anyone who wants to go rafting in a group. Going on a raft alone means you want to kill yourself or are a bit crazy. Also, Romania has a lot of rivers surrounding it, so it is no wonder that going on a raft, esti dus cu pluta means you are crazy. This expression can be used on a serious note or as a jovial statement between friends. Te îmbeți cu apă rece – You Get Drunk With Cold Water Romanians are naturally warm and humorous people that enjoy each passing moment. They are always ready to share the warmth and love of their culture with anyone willing to partake. Romanians’ strong sense of humor extends to their language, and you can’t help but find a lot of funny Romanian phrases and expressions that will get you giggling right away when translated literally into the English Language.A face cum îl taie capul – to do as one’s head cuts - is one way of saying that one does things as they please or in their own particular way. Andrew Tate arrested in Romania after a pizza box showed he was in the country. Police arrested him within 30 minutes As any longer would mean they had to give him a free garlic bread.

We’ve gone through some of the funny Romanian expressions in the Romanian language, and I believe you’ve learned one or two phrases (of course, while having a good laugh) to improve your language skills and even sound like a native.

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Understanding the meaning of various idioms is part of the fun of learning a foreign language, especially when getting past the word-for-word translation. We have compiled below a list ofphrases to use totest your Romanian.

Remember when you had an Aha moment after spending so much time on something? When your coin drops, it means you have a breakthrough – a eureka/light bulb moment, or you finally understood something you’ve been battling for a long time. Whew! What a relief! Tace ca porcu-n păpușoi – Keep Quiet Like The Pig In A Cornfield A face din tânțar armăsar – to turn a mosquito into a stallion – more references from the insect and animal kingdoms to describe an overreaction or exaggeration. Thousands of jokes, which were circulated by word of mouth, escaped official censorship in a country controlled by the dictatorship’s much dreaded political police, the Securitate. We all get confused once in a while. Imagine you have no knowledge of the Romanian language, and one of them says Cioara la ciolan, then that means that the other person seems to think that you are confused. Wrapping UpYou’re too much.” The American is exasperated. ”With the money you could buy a boat, and then you could employ people to catch fish. You wouldn’t have to do anything. You could just sit there watching the lake.”