Angajatorul angajează candidatul.

Because -ul is the definite article attached to the end of a masculine singular noun.

So:

• angajator = employer
• angajatorul = the employer

and

• candidat = candidate
• candidatul = the candidate

Romanian usually puts the at the end of the noun, not before it.

Usually, no. Romanian has a postposed definite article, which means the article is attached to the noun.

Compare:

• un angajator = an employer

• angajatorul = the employer

• un candidat = a candidate
• candidatul = the candidate

So English puts the article before the noun, but Romanian often puts the definite article after it.

angajează is the 3rd person singular present tense of the verb a angaja, which means to hire.

That matches the singular subject angajatorul.

A quick present-tense pattern is:

• eu angajez = I hire
• tu angajezi = you hire
• el/ea angajează = he/she hires
• noi angajăm = we hire
• voi angajați = you all hire
• ei/ele angajează = they hire

So in this sentence, angajează agrees with angajatorul.

It can mean either, depending on context.

Romanian present tense often covers both:

• a general or habitual action: hires
• an action happening now: is hiring

So without more context, the sentence could be understood as either:

• The employer hires the candidate
• The employer is hiring the candidate

English usually forces you to choose more clearly than Romanian does.

Because they come from the same word family built around the root angaj-.

• a angaja = to hire
• angajator = employer

This is very common in Romanian: related words often clearly share the same stem.

That can actually help learners, because once you know the root, you can often recognize several connected words.

Good question. With a human direct object, Romanian often uses pe, especially when the person is specific.

So many speakers would very naturally say:

Angajatorul îl angajează pe candidat.

That version makes the object marking clearer and sounds very natural in everyday Romanian.

The sentence Angajatorul angajează candidatul is still useful as a basic learning example, especially to show simple word order and definite forms. But in more natural speech, you will often hear pe candidat, and often also the object pronoun îl.

Mostly from word order and meaning.

Here the order is:

Subject + Verb + Object

So:

• Angajatorul = subject
• angajează = verb
• candidatul = direct object

This matters because in Romanian, the nominative and accusative forms are often identical for nouns like these. In other words, candidatul does not change shape just because it is the object.

That is one reason why pe can be helpful with human objects: it makes the object role more explicit.

Because for many Romanian nouns, especially in the singular, the nominative and accusative forms are the same.

So:

• angajatorul can be a subject form
• candidatul can be an object form without changing shape

Romanian does not always mark the direct object with a special noun ending the way some other languages do. Instead, it often relies on:

• word order
• context
• sometimes pe for animate objects

The letter ă is a separate Romanian vowel. It sounds like the a in English sofa or about.

So the end of angajează sounds roughly like zuh.

A rough English-style approximation of the whole sentence is:

ahn-gah-zhah-TO-rul ahn-gah-ZHEA-zuh cahn-dee-DA-tul

A few useful pronunciation notes:

• j in Romanian sounds like the s in measure
• ă is a schwa-like sound
• stress is roughly on -tor-, -jea-, and -da-

No. Romanian usually drops subject pronouns unless they are needed for emphasis or contrast.

So you normally say:

Angajatorul angajează candidatul.

not

El angajatorul angajează candidatul.

The verb ending already tells you it is 3rd person singular, so an extra subject pronoun is often unnecessary.

However, if you use pe with a definite human object, you will often also see an object pronoun:

Angajatorul îl angajează pe candidat.

Here îl refers to the candidate.

You would use the indefinite article before the noun:

Un angajator angajează un candidat.

So:

• un angajator = an employer
• un candidat = a candidate

This is a very useful contrast:

• Angajatorul angajează candidatul = definite
• Un angajator angajează un candidat = indefinite