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Rh The relative pronoun care, ce, occurs more frequently in Roumanian than in English, where it is avoided by a simpler construction: thus—

We cannot translate ‘The man I saw,’ ‘The time I came,’ etc., without the insertion of the relative pronoun between the subject and the verb.

We have seen that verbs may be used without the subject being expressed by a personal pronoun, though the use of the latter is not incorrect: In compound tenses the auxiliary usually precedes the verb; sometimes, however, when it is a single and not a compound auxiliary, it follows the verb: When the auxiliary aṣĭ, aĭ, ar, etc., follows the verb, we use the second form of the infinitive: But when the auxiliary is a compound one, it must always precede the verb: