Recolta are ardei și ierburi aromatice.

Recolta means the harvest or the crop. In this sentence, it refers to what has been gathered or what the crop consists of.

So Recolta are ardei și ierburi aromatice is literally something like The harvest has peppers and aromatic herbs, but in more natural English you might say:

• The harvest includes peppers and herbs.
• The crop contains peppers and aromatic herbs.

Because in Romanian, the definite article is usually attached to the end of the noun.

So:

• recoltă = harvest / a harvest
• recolta = the harvest

This is very different from English, where we put the before the noun.

Are is the 3rd person singular form of a avea, which means to have.

So:

• eu am = I have
• el/ea are = he/she/it has

Since recolta is singular, Romanian uses are:

• Recolta are... = The harvest has...

In context, a avea can also mean to contain, to include, or to feature, not just literal possession.

Romanian often leaves plural nouns without an article when speaking in a general or indefinite way.

So:

• ardei = peppers
• ierburi aromatice = aromatic herbs / herbs

The sentence is not talking about specific, already-identified peppers and herbs, so no definite article is used.

If Romanian wanted to say the peppers or the aromatic herbs, it would normally use definite forms such as:

• ardeii
• ierburile aromatice

Here, ardei is plural and means peppers.

This word can be a little tricky because ardei is also the usual dictionary form you often see, and Romanian noun patterns are not always obvious to English speakers.

In this sentence, because it is coordinated with ierburi aromatice and refers to more than one item, it is understood as plural: peppers.

Because in Romanian, adjectives usually come after the noun.

So:

• ierburi aromatice = aromatic herbs
• literally: herbs aromatic

This is one of the most common word-order differences between English and Romanian.

Because the adjective has to agree with the noun it describes.

Here, ierburi is:

• feminine
• plural

So the adjective must also be feminine plural:

• aromatic = masculine/neuter singular
• aromatică = feminine singular
• aromatici = masculine plural
• aromatice = feminine/neuter plural

Since ierburi is feminine plural, Romanian uses aromatice.

Normally, aromatice is understood to describe only ierburi.

So the structure is:

• ardei
• și
• ierburi aromatice

That means:

• peppers
• and
• aromatic herbs

If the speaker wanted aromatic to apply clearly to both nouns, they would usually phrase the sentence differently.

Yes. Și is the normal Romanian word for and.

So:

• ardei și ierburi aromatice = peppers and aromatic herbs

A useful pronunciation note: ș is pronounced like English sh, so și sounds roughly like shee.

It is understandable, but depending on context, Romanian might also use other phrasings that sound more natural in everyday speech.

Possible alternatives include:

• Recolta cuprinde ardei și ierburi aromatice.
  = The harvest includes peppers and herbs.

• În recoltă sunt ardei și ierburi aromatice.
  = There are peppers and aromatic herbs in the harvest.

Still, Recolta are... is grammatically fine and easy to understand.

A simple approximate pronunciation is:

reh-KOL-tah AH-reh ar-DAY ee YEHR-boor-ee ah-roh-mah-TEE-cheh

A few helpful points:

• recolta = reh-KOL-ta
• are = AH-re
• ardei ends with a sound like day
• ierburi begins with a y sound: yer-
• ce in aromatice sounds like che in check

Romanian spelling is fairly regular, so pronunciation becomes much easier with practice.