Te interesează rezultatul?

Literally, it is something like The result interests you?

Natural English would usually be:

• Are you interested in the result?
• or, depending on context, Do you care about the result?

Romanian often uses the verb a interesa in a structure where the thing is the subject and the person affected appears as an object pronoun.

Because a interesa works differently from English to be interested in.

In Romanian:

• rezultatul = the result
• te = you
• interesează = interests

So the structure is:

• Rezultatul te interesează = The result interests you

Here, rezultatul is doing the action grammatically, so the verb is in 3rd person singular: interesează.

If you said tu interesezi, that would mean you interest..., as in You interest me, which is a different idea.

Te is the unstressed form of the pronoun you in the 2nd person singular.

In this sentence, it functions as the direct object:

• te = you

So:

• Te interesează rezultatul? = Does the result interest you?

Compare:

• Mă interesează = it interests me
• Te interesează = it interests you
• Îl interesează = it interests him
• Ne interesează = it interests us

Because rezultatul means the result.

Romanian usually puts the definite article at the end of the noun:

• rezultat = a result
• rezultatul = the result

This is very common in Romanian:

• băiat = boy
• băiatul = the boy
• carte = book
• cartea = the book

So Te interesează rezultatul? specifically means Are you interested in the result?, not just a result.

Yes, absolutely.

Both are correct:

• Te interesează rezultatul?
• Rezultatul te interesează?

Romanian word order is fairly flexible. The difference is mostly about focus or emphasis.

• Te interesează rezultatul? is a very natural neutral question.
• Rezultatul te interesează? puts a bit more attention on the result.

In everyday speech, both can occur.

Interesează is the 3rd person singular present tense form of a interesa.

So:

• (el/ea) interesează = he/she/it interests

In this sentence, the subject is rezultatul, which is singular, so the verb must also be singular:

• Rezultatul te interesează

Some useful present-tense forms:

• mă interesează = it interests me
• te interesează = it interests you
• îl/o interesează = it interests him/her
• ne interesează = it interests us
• vă interesează = it interests you (plural/formal)
• îi interesează = it interests them

Notice that the verb form often stays interesează with singular subjects.

You would use vă instead of te:

• Vă interesează rezultatul?

This can mean:

• Are you interested in the result? — when speaking to several people
• Are you interested in the result? — when speaking politely/formally to one person

So:

• te = you, singular informal
• vă = you, plural or formal singular

It can be either, depending on context.

Most neutral translation:

• Are you interested in the result?

But in some situations it may feel closer to:

• Do you care about the result?

For example, if someone sounds impatient or challenging, Te interesează rezultatul? might suggest:

• Do you even care about the result?

So the basic meaning is about interest, but tone and context can shift it slightly toward caring or being concerned about something.

A rough English-friendly guide would be:

teh in-teh-reh-SEH-zuh reh-zool-TA-tool

A few helpful notes:

• te sounds like teh
• interesează has stress on -se-
• ă is a short central vowel, something like a very reduced uh
• rezultatul has the stress on ta

A more careful breakdown:

• Te → teh
• interesează → in-te-re-SEA-ză
• rezultatul → re-zul-TA-tul

Yes. This pattern is very common.

Examples:

• Te interesează filmul? = Are you interested in the movie?
• Te interesează sportul? = Are you interested in sports?
• Te interesează oferta? = Are you interested in the offer?
• Mă interesează subiectul. = The subject interests me.
• Nu mă interesează. = It doesn’t interest me. / I’m not interested.

So a very useful pattern is:

• Mă / Te / Îl / O / Ne / Vă / Îi interesează + noun

You put nu before the verb:

• Nu te interesează rezultatul?

This usually means:

• Aren’t you interested in the result?

It can also sound surprised, like:

• You’re not interested in the result?

And if you want to answer I’m not interested in the result, you can say:

• Nu mă interesează rezultatul.

Yes. Romanian can form a yes/no question just by intonation.

So:

• Te interesează rezultatul. = The result interests you.
• Te interesează rezultatul? = Are you interested in the result?

In writing, the question mark shows it clearly. In speech, your voice usually rises in a questioning way.

There is no need for a word like do or are at the start, unlike in English.