at home
Position. No preposition, ever.
Sunt acasă.
I'm at home.
Stai acasă azi?
Are you staying home today?
#141 · Adverb
acasă
In Romanian, acasă means “at home”. It’s the #141 most frequently used Romanian word. Below you’ll find how to use it, its forms, real example sentences, and common word pairings.
Meaning & Use
Acasă is "home" — and it is an adverb, not a noun, which is why it takes no preposition. Merg acasă is "I am going home" and Sunt acasă is "I am at home", with nothing in between. Rank 141. The noun for a house is casă; acasă is where you live, and it already contains the "at" and the "to".
neutralhome / homewards
Direction, with the same word and still no preposition.
Merg acasă.
I'm going home.
Hai acasă!
Let's go home!
from home (de acasă)
de supplies the origin.
Lucrez de acasă.
I work from home.
at somebody's place (acasă la)
acasă la mine, acasă la ei — the standard way to name whose home.
acasă la mine
at my place
Forms you’ll actually hear
Ranked by how often each form shows up in spoken Romanian. The top form cover about 100% of everyday use — learn these first.
acasă100%
Patterns
Invariable, and it normally follows the verb. It combines only with de ("from home") and with la plus a possessor ("at my place"). It has no degrees — there is no "more at home" — and it never agrees with anything.
verb + acasă
Both position and direction, with no preposition.
Vino acasă.
Come home.
de acasă
From home.
Am plecat de acasă la șapte.
I left home at seven.
acasă la + possessor
At somebody's place.
Suntem acasă la ei.
We're at their place.
casă (the noun) with a preposition
When a preposition is genuinely needed, the noun takes over: în casă, lângă casă.
Intră în casă.
Come inside the house.
Examples
Merg acasă.
I'm going home.
acasă - Direction with no preposition. Adding one — *merg la acasă — is the error this word produces most.
Nu e nimeni acasă.
Nobody is home.
acasă - Position, same form. The double negative nu … nimeni is obligatory.
Lucrez de acasă de doi ani.
I've worked from home for two years.
de acasă - The first de gives the origin, the second measures the duration. Romanian uses the present for a state still going on.
Ne vedem acasă la mine.
We'll meet at my place.
acasă - acasă la plus a stressed pronoun names whose home it is.
Când ajungi acasă, sună-mă.
When you get home, call me.
acasă - After când the present carries the future. The imperative sună takes its clitic with a hyphen.
Acasă never takes a preposition for "at" or "to": sunt acasă, merg acasă. If you need a preposition, you probably want the noun casă instead — în casă is "inside the house", which is a different statement from acasă.