Bărbatul scapă de ploaie.

-ul is the definite article attached to the end of the noun. So:

• bărbat = man
• bărbatul = the man

Romanian usually puts the at the end of the noun instead of using a separate word like English does.

That is just how Romanian normally works. The definite article is an enclitic article, meaning it gets added to the end of the noun.

For example:

• bărbat = a man / man
• bărbatul = the man
• femeie = woman
• femeia = the woman

So in this sentence, bărbatul already includes the idea of the.

Scapă is the 3rd person singular present tense of the verb a scăpa.

That means it can mean:

• he escapes
• she escapes
• it escapes

In this sentence, because the subject is bărbatul, it means the man escapes.

Romanian often leaves out subject pronouns because the verb ending already tells you the person and number.

Here, scapă already shows 3rd person singular, so adding el is usually unnecessary.

• Bărbatul scapă de ploaie. = normal, natural
• El scapă de ploaie. = possible, but el adds emphasis or contrast

This is similar to Spanish or Italian.

Because a scăpa de is the normal pattern for to escape from, to get rid of, or to be rid of something.

So:

• a scăpa de ceva = to escape from something / get rid of something

Examples:

• Scap de probleme. = I get rid of the problems / I escape from the problems.
• A scăpat de pericol. = He escaped the danger.

So in your sentence, de ploaie goes with scapă as a set pattern.

Not always. A scăpa has several meanings depending on context.

Common ones include:

• to escape
• to get rid of
• to save
• sometimes to drop / let slip

For example:

• A scăpa de ploaie = to escape the rain / get out of the rain
• A scăpa pe cineva = to save someone
• Am scăpat paharul. = I dropped the glass.

So the preposition and the context matter a lot.

After de, Romanian often uses the noun without the definite article when speaking in a general sense.

So:

• ploaie = rain
• ploaia = the rain

In scapă de ploaie, the idea is natural as escapes the rain / gets out of the rain, and Romanian commonly uses the bare noun here.

Both language structure and context help determine how English would translate it.

After the preposition de, the noun is in the form normally associated with the accusative after prepositions.

In practice, for many Romanian nouns, that form looks the same as the dictionary form, so you just see ploaie.

A beginner-friendly way to think about it is:

• de is the preposition required by a scăpa
• ploaie is the noun that follows that preposition

You do not need to change it into a special visible form here.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

buh rba tul SKA puh deh PLOA-ye

A few important points:

• ă is a short, neutral vowel, like the a in sofa
• sc in scapă is pronounced like sk
• ploaie has two parts near the end: oa-ye

More carefully:

• Bărbatul ≈ bər-BA-tul
• scapă ≈ SKA-pə
• ploaie ≈ PLOA-ye

The normal, neutral order here is:

• Bărbatul = subject
• scapă = verb
• de ploaie = prepositional phrase

So Bărbatul scapă de ploaie is the most straightforward way to say it.

Romanian word order is somewhat flexible, but changing it usually adds emphasis or sounds more literary or marked. For a learner, this sentence is the standard pattern to copy.

Yes. The exact English wording depends on context.

A scăpa de ploaie can suggest:

• escaping the rain
• getting out of the rain
• getting away from the rain
• avoiding the rain

Romanian present tense can often map to several natural English translations, depending on the situation.

Here are the dictionary forms:

• bărbatul → bărbat = man
• scapă → a scăpa = to escape / to get rid of
• de = from / of
• ploaie = rain

So the sentence is built from very common Romanian patterns: noun + verb + de + noun.

Yes. The pattern a scăpa de + noun is very common.

Examples:

• Fata scapă de câine. = The girl escapes from the dog.
• Copilul scapă de pericol. = The child escapes danger.
• Am scăpat de probleme. = I got rid of the problems.

So once you learn a scăpa de, you can reuse it with many different nouns.