Amândoi lucrează acasă.

Amândoi means both or both of them when talking about two people.

In this sentence, it tells you that the two people mentioned are both working at home.

It is normally used for:

• two males, or
• a mixed pair (one male and one female)

For two females, Romanian normally uses amândouă instead.

Romanian distinguishes gender here:

• amândoi = both (masculine or mixed group)
• amândouă = both (feminine)

So if the sentence refers to:

• two men → Amândoi lucrează acasă.
• one man and one woman → Amândoi lucrează acasă.
• two women → Amândouă lucrează acasă.

Romanian often drops subject pronouns when they are not needed. This is very common.

So instead of saying something like Ei lucrează acasă, Romanian can simply say:

• Lucrează acasă. = They work at home / He or she works at home
• Amândoi lucrează acasă. = Both work at home

Here, amândoi already identifies the subject clearly enough, so ei is unnecessary.

Lucrează is the present tense form of a lucra (to work) for third person.

A detail that often surprises learners: in the present tense, Romanian uses the same form for:

• he/she works
• they work

So:

• El lucrează = He works
• Ea lucrează = She works
• Ei/Ele lucrează = They work

In Amândoi lucrează acasă, the meaning is plural because amândoi means both.

In this sentence, amândoi functions like a pronoun, because it stands by itself and refers to people already understood from context.

Compare:

• Amândoi lucrează acasă. = Both work at home.
  Here it stands alone.

But it can also appear next to a noun, more like an adjective:

• Amândoi băieții lucrează acasă. = Both boys work at home.

So depending on the structure, it can behave in a pronoun-like or adjective-like way.

Acasă means at home or home, depending on context.

In this sentence, lucrează acasă means work at home.

A useful point: acasă is used without a preposition in many common expressions:

• Sunt acasă. = I am at home.
• Merg acasă. = I am going home.
• Lucrează acasă. = He/She/They work at home.

So unlike English, Romanian does not need at before home here.

Yes, there can be a small difference.

• lucrează acasă = works at home
• lucrează de acasă = works from home

In everyday use, they can overlap a lot, especially when talking about remote work. But often:

• acasă focuses on the location
• de acasă emphasizes the idea of working from home as a base, often closer to remotely

So this sentence is perfectly natural, but in modern speech you may also hear:

• Amândoi lucrează de acasă.

Yes. Romanian word order is fairly flexible.

The neutral order here is:

• Amândoi lucrează acasă.

But you could also hear:

• Lucrează amândoi acasă.
• Acasă lucrează amândoi.

These versions shift the emphasis a little:

• starting with amândoi emphasizes both of them
• starting with lucrează emphasizes the action
• starting with acasă emphasizes the place

The original sentence is very natural and straightforward.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

• amândoi ≈ uh-MUHN-doy
• lucrează ≈ loo-KREH-uh-zuh
• acasă ≈ uh-KAH-suh

A more accurate IPA version is approximately:

• amândoi /a.mɨnˈdoj/
• lucrează /luˈkre̯a.zə/
• acasă /aˈka.sə/

Two important Romanian vowel sounds here are:

• â = a central vowel /ɨ/, a sound English does not really have
• ă = /ə/, like the a in English about

Yes, they matter.

The correct spelling is:

• Amândoi lucrează acasă.

The diacritics are:

• â in amândoi
• ă in lucrează
• ă in acasă

If you write Amandoi lucreaza acasa, Romanian speakers will still understand it, especially in informal typing, but it is not standard spelling. In proper writing, you should keep the diacritics.

Yes, ambii can also mean both, but it is usually felt as a bit more formal, bookish, or careful than amândoi.

So:

• Amândoi lucrează acasă. = very natural everyday Romanian
• Ambii lucrează acasă. = correct, but often more formal in tone

For most everyday conversation, amândoi is the more common choice.