Greșeala pare evidentă.

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

• greșeală = a mistake / an error
• greșeala = the mistake / the error

So -a here is the definite article attached to the noun.

Yes. Greșeală is a feminine noun.

That matters because words connected to it, especially adjectives, often have to agree with it in gender and number. That is why the adjective is evidentă, not evident.

Because evidentă agrees with greșeala, which is feminine singular.

Romanian adjectives change form to match the noun:

• masculine singular: evident
• feminine singular: evidentă
• masculine plural: evidenți
• feminine/neuter plural: evidente

Since greșeala is feminine singular, the correct form is evidentă.

Pare means seems or appears. It comes from the verb a părea = to seem / to appear.

So:

• Greșeala pare evidentă. = The mistake seems obvious.
• Greșeala este evidentă. = The mistake is obvious.

The difference is the same as in English:

• pare = a judgment or impression
• este = a direct statement of fact

Pare is the 3rd person singular present tense of a părea.

That matches the singular subject greșeala.

A few present-tense forms of a părea are:

• eu par = I seem
• tu pari = you seem
• el/ea pare = he/she/it seems
• noi părem = we seem
• voi păreți = you all seem
• ei/ele par = they seem

Because Romanian often does not need subject pronouns when the subject is already clear.

Here, the subject is the noun greșeala, so there is no need to add a pronoun.

Romanian is a pro-drop language, which means subject pronouns are often omitted unless needed for emphasis or contrast.

Here evidentă is a predicate adjective, not an adjective directly placed before or after a noun inside a noun phrase.

In other words, it is linked to the subject through the verb pare:

• Greșeala = subject
• pare = linking verb
• evidentă = adjective describing the subject

This works much like English The mistake seems obvious.

Yes, Romanian word order is fairly flexible, but the neutral, most natural order here is:

• Greșeala pare evidentă.

You might also hear altered word order for emphasis, style, or context, but that usually sounds more marked. For a learner, this sentence is best understood and produced in the standard order:

subject + verb + adjective

It is in the nominative, because it is the subject of the sentence.

In Greșeala pare evidentă, the thing doing the seeming is greșeala, so it functions as the subject.

Two Romanian letters here are especially important:

• ș = like sh in ship
• ă = a short central vowel, similar to the a in English sofa or about

So:

• greșeala sounds roughly like gre-SHAH-la, with the final ă sound reduced in the base form greșeală
• evidentă ends with that same ă sound

You do not need a perfect accent right away, but it is important not to pronounce ș like plain s.

Yes. That is completely correct, but it means something slightly different.

• Greșeala pare evidentă. = The mistake seems obvious.
• Greșeala este evidentă. = The mistake is obvious.

So pare is a bit softer or less absolute than este.

The plural would be:

Greșelile par evidente.

Here is what changed:

• greșeala → greșelile = the mistakes
• pare → par = plural verb
• evidentă → evidente = plural adjective

This shows how Romanian changes several words so they agree with a plural subject.