Compania aeriană permite bagajul de mână.

In Romanian, the definite article is usually attached to the end of the noun instead of being a separate word like the in English.

So:

• companie = company
• compania = the company

In this sentence, compania aeriană means the airline or literally the air company.

In Romanian, adjectives often come after the noun, unlike in English.

So:

• compania aeriană = the airline
• literally: the company air-related

This is very normal word order in Romanian. The adjective aeriană describes compania and agrees with it in gender, number, and definiteness context.

Aeriană means air or air-related in this context.

It comes from aerian, which is an adjective meaning aerial, air-based, or related to aviation/air transport.

Because companie is feminine singular, the adjective also appears in the feminine singular form:

• masculine singular: aerian
• feminine singular: aeriană

So:

• companie aeriană = airline
• literally: air company

Permite is the correct 3rd person singular present tense form of the verb a permite = to allow / to permit.

Here the subject is compania aeriană = the airline, which is singular, so you need:

• (ea) permite = it allows

Some useful forms:

• eu permit = I allow
• tu permiți = you allow
• el/ea permite = he/she/it allows
• noi permitem = we allow
• voi permiteți = you all allow
• ei/ele permit = they allow

Bagajul means the baggage / the luggage because it has the Romanian definite article attached:

• bagaj = baggage, luggage
• bagajul = the baggage / the luggage

In this sentence, Romanian uses the definite form to refer to hand luggage as a category. English often uses a more general form like hand luggage or carry-on baggage without the, but Romanian may still use the definite article.

De mână literally means of hand, but idiomatically it means hand in the sense of carried by hand.

So:

• bagaj de mână = hand luggage
• also understood as carry-on luggage

This is a fixed expression. Similar Romanian patterns are common:

• geantă de mână = handbag
• frână de mână = handbrake

Because after the preposition de, Romanian normally uses the base form of the noun, not the definite form.

So:

• mână = hand
• mâna = the hand

In the fixed phrase de mână, you use mână, not mâna.

That is why:

• bagaj de mână = hand luggage
• not bagaj de mâna

Grammatically, it is singular:

• bagajul = the luggage / the baggage

But just like English luggage, it often refers to something collective or uncountable rather than one specific item.

Depending on context, English might translate it as:

• hand luggage
• carry-on luggage
• a carry-on bag sometimes, if the situation implies one item

If you wanted a clearly plural idea in Romanian, you would use something like:

• bagajele de mână = the carry-on bags / the hand luggage items

It can correspond to allows or permits. In this sentence, allows is usually the most natural English translation.

So:

• Compania aeriană permite bagajul de mână. = The airline allows hand luggage.

Lets is usually less natural here. English would not normally say The airline lets hand luggage. You would need a different structure, like The airline lets passengers bring hand luggage.

It is understandable, but in real life Romanian speakers might often phrase it more naturally in one of these ways:

• Compania aeriană permite bagaj de mână.
• Compania aeriană permite un bagaj de mână.
• La această companie aeriană este permis bagajul de mână.

The version with bagajul de mână is still possible, especially if speaking about the category in general. But depending on context, bagaj de mână or un bagaj de mână may sound more natural.

Because the Romanian sentence is built differently. Here, permite directly takes a noun phrase as its object:

• permite bagajul de mână = allows hand luggage

Romanian does not need an extra word like to in this structure.

If you wanted to express allows passengers to bring hand luggage, Romanian could say:

• Compania aeriană le permite pasagerilor să aducă bagaj de mână.

That is a longer structure with:

• le permite pasagerilor = allows the passengers
• să aducă = to bring

Because it is the thing doing the action of permite.

Breakdown:

• Compania aeriană = the airline
• permite = allows
• bagajul de mână = hand luggage

So the airline is the one that allows something, which makes it the subject.

Also, the verb is in 3rd person singular (permite), which matches the singular subject compania aeriană.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

kom-PA-nee-a ah-eh-ree-A-nuh per-MEE-teh ba-GA-zhul deh MUN-uh

A few helpful notes:

• g in bagajul sounds like the s in measure
• ă is a short central vowel, somewhat like the weak vowel in sofa
• â in mână is a deeper central vowel, specific to Romanian

A more approximate IPA-style pronunciation is:

/komˈpa.ni.a a.e.riˈa.nə perˈmi.te baˈga.ʒul de ˈmɨ.nə/