Onoarea este importantă.

Because Romanian usually adds the definite article to the end of the noun instead of putting a separate word before it.

• onoare = honor
• onoarea = the honor

So onoarea already includes the idea of the.

This is very common with abstract nouns in Romanian. Romanian often prefers the definite form in general statements about ideas or values.

So:

• Onoarea este importantă = Honor is important

Even though English has no article here, Romanian sounds more natural with the definite form.

Yes. Onoare is feminine. That matters because adjectives in Romanian must agree with the noun in gender and number.

That is why the sentence uses importantă, the feminine singular form.

Because the adjective has to agree with onoarea, which is feminine singular.

Compare:

• un lucru important = an important thing
• o idee importantă = an important idea

Here, onoarea is feminine singular, so importantă is the correct form.

Este means is. It is the full form of the verb a fi = to be.

Yes, you can also say:

• Onoarea e importantă.

That is very common in speech and informal writing. Este sounds a bit more neutral or formal.

Yes, but Onoarea este importantă is the most neutral and straightforward order.

You could also say:

• Este importantă onoarea.

That version gives extra emphasis, almost like It is honor that is important. As a learner, the original order is the safest one to use first.

Roughly, you should pronounce all parts of the word: o-noa-re-a. The stress falls on the noa part.

The important thing is not to shorten it too much: the ending article is part of the word, so onoarea is longer than onoare.

Ă is a very common Romanian vowel. It sounds somewhat like the a in English sofa.

So the end of importantă is not a strong ah sound. It is a shorter, more neutral vowel.

In casual typing, some people leave out diacritics, but the correct spelling is importantă.

As a learner, it is best to write Romanian with diacritics whenever possible:

• ă
• â
• î
• ș
• ț

That will help you read, write, and pronounce words more accurately.

Not in normal Romanian. The natural sentence is Onoarea este importantă.

Without the definite article, onoare sounds incomplete here. In this kind of general statement, Romanian normally uses the definite form: onoarea.