Primăria eliberează autorizația de funcționare.

In this sentence, primăria usually means the town hall / city hall as an institution, not just the physical building.

So it can refer to:

• the municipal administration
• the local authority
• sometimes, by extension, the town hall building

In a sentence about issuing permits, it most naturally means the local government office.

Because Romanian often puts the definite article at the end of the noun, not before it like English the.

• primărie = a town hall / city hall
• primăria = the town hall / city hall

This is very common in Romanian. The definite article is attached to the noun:

• casă = house
• casa = the house

So primăria is simply the definite form of primărie.

The two main special letters here are:

• ă = a short neutral vowel, like the a in English sofa
• ț = ts, like in English cats

So:

• Primăria sounds roughly like pree-muh-REE-ah
• autorizația includes ț pronounced ts
• eliberează has ă at the end

A rough pronunciation of the whole sentence is:

pree-muh-REE-ah eh-lee-beh-REH-zuh ow-toh-ree-ZA-tsee-ah deh foonk-tsee-oh-NA-reh

That is only approximate, but it helps.

Eliberează is the 3rd person singular present tense of the verb a elibera.

Here it means:

• he/she/it issues
• releases
• delivers
• provides
  depending on context

Because the subject is primăria (the town hall), the verb is in 3rd person singular:

• eu eliberez = I issue
• tu eliberezi = you issue
• el/ea eliberează = he/she/it issues

So Primăria eliberează... = The town hall issues...

Romanian often drops subject pronouns when the verb ending already shows the person clearly.

So instead of saying:

• Ea eliberează autorizația...

Romanian normally just says:

• Primăria eliberează autorizația...

Even without ea, the sentence is perfectly clear because:

• the subject primăria is present
• the verb form eliberează matches a 3rd person singular subject

This is very normal in Romanian.

Yes, a elibera can literally mean to release, but in administrative Romanian it very often means:

• to issue
• to hand over
• to provide officially

So with documents, permits, certificates, IDs, and similar things, a elibera is a standard bureaucratic verb.

For example:

• a elibera un certificat = to issue a certificate
• a elibera un pașaport = to issue a passport

So in this sentence, it is best understood as issues.

For the same reason as primărie → primăria: it is the definite form.

• autorizație = an authorization / a permit
• autorizația = the authorization / the permit

So:

• autorizația de funcționare = the operating permit / the authorization to operate

This noun is feminine, and its definite singular form ends in -a.

De funcționare means something like:

• for operation
• for functioning
• to operate

In natural English, the whole phrase is usually translated as:

• operating permit
• business operating permit
• authorization to operate

The word funcționare is a noun, not a finite verb here. It comes from the verb a funcționa (to function / to operate).

So:

• funcționa = to operate / function
• funcționare = operation / functioning

In Romanian, de is often used to link nouns in a way that English might express with:

• of
• for
• an adjective-like noun phrase

So autorizație de funcționare is literally something like:

• authorization of functioning

But natural English would say:

• operating permit
• authorization to operate

This noun + de + noun structure is very common in Romanian:

• sală de clasă = classroom
• permis de conducere = driving licence
• certificat de naștere = birth certificate

So autorizație de funcționare is a standard Romanian structure.

Because pe is generally used with direct objects that are people (or highly specific animate beings), not usually with things like permits.

Here:

• autorizația is an inanimate direct object
• so no pe is needed

Compare:

• Văd mașina. = I see the car.
• Văd pe Maria. = I see Maria.

Since autorizația is a document, plain autorizația is correct.

It is the direct object, so functionally it is in the accusative.

In this sentence:

• Primăria = subject
• eliberează = verb
• autorizația de funcționare = direct object

For many Romanian nouns, especially in this kind of sentence, the nominative and accusative forms look the same. So you identify the role mainly from syntax, not from a visible ending change.

Yes. Romanian word order is fairly flexible, although Subject–Verb–Object is the most neutral pattern here:

• Primăria eliberează autorizația de funcționare.

Other orders are possible for emphasis, for example:

• Autorizația de funcționare o eliberează primăria.

That version emphasizes the operating permit or contrasts primăria with some other authority.

But for a learner, the original order is the safest and most natural basic pattern.

Yes, it is a very common administrative phrase.

It refers to an official permit allowing a business or activity to operate legally. Depending on context, English translations could include:

• operating permit
• business operating permit
• authorization to operate

So it is worth learning as a chunk, not just word by word:

• autorizație de funcționare = operating permit
• autorizația de funcționare = the operating permit