Veștile sunt bune.

Because Romanian and English treat news differently.

• Romanian has:
  • veste = a piece of news / a piece of information
  • vești = news, pieces of news

So veștile sunt bune is literally closer to the news items are good or the pieces of news are good.

In natural English, though, we usually say the news is good, because news is grammatically singular in English even though it refers to information in general.

It is the definite article, meaning the.

Romanian usually puts the at the end of the noun instead of using a separate word before it.

• vești = news
• veștile = the news

So:

• Veștile sunt bune = The news is good

This is very normal in Romanian:

• carte = book
• cartea = the book
• fete = girls
• fetele = the girls

Sunt is the present-tense form of a fi (to be) for they are / are.

Since veștile is plural, Romanian uses the plural verb:

• vestea este bună = the news / the piece of news is good
• veștile sunt bune = the news / the pieces of news are good

So sunt is used because the subject is plural.

Because adjectives in Romanian must agree with the noun in gender and number.

Here:

• vești is feminine plural
• so the adjective must also be feminine plural
• that form is bune

Compare:

• bun = masculine singular
• bună = feminine singular
• buni = masculine plural
• bune = feminine plural

So:

• veste bună = good piece of news
• vești bune = good news / good pieces of news
• veștile sunt bune = the news is good

This is an important difference.

• veștile bune = the good news
  Here bune directly describes the noun. This is just a noun phrase.

• veștile sunt bune = the news is good
  Here sunt makes it a full sentence. Bune is not just attached to the noun; it is the description given after the verb to be.

So:

• veștile bune = which news? the good ones
• veștile sunt bune = what are the news like? they are good

Yes. If you are talking about one piece of news, you can use the singular:

• Vestea este bună.
• Vestea e bună.

That means The news is good or The piece of news is good, depending on context.

So the choice depends on whether Romanian sees it as:

• one item: vestea
• several items / news in general: veștile

A simple approximation is:

VESH-tee-leh sunt BOO-neh

A few notes:

• ș sounds like sh in shoe
• e is usually like eh
• u in bune is like oo in boot
• the stress is on the first syllable of veștile and bune

So:

• veștile ≈ VESH-tee-leh
• bune ≈ BOO-neh

For sunt, native pronunciation can vary somewhat, and it is often pronounced closer to sînt than an English learner might expect. But as a beginner, recognizing it as the standard written form of are is the most important thing.

The given order, Veștile sunt bune, is the most neutral and standard one.

Romanian word order is more flexible than English, so other orders are possible for emphasis or style, but they are not the basic pattern a beginner should learn first.

The safest choice is:

• subject + verb + adjective
• Veștile sunt bune

That is the natural, straightforward way to say it.

No, not in standard grammar.

• e / este = is (singular)
• sunt = are (plural)

Since veștile is plural, you need sunt:

• Vestea e bună. = The news / the piece of news is good.
• Veștile sunt bune. = The news is good / The news items are good.

So e would only work with the singular vestea, not with veștile.