El vorbește despre onoare.

Yes. Romanian often drops subject pronouns because the verb ending already shows the person.

So Vorbește despre onoare. is also a complete and natural sentence meaning He is speaking / talks about honor.

El is included for emphasis, contrast, or clarity:

• El vorbește despre onoare. = He talks about honor.
• This can suggest he, not someone else.

Vorbește is the 3rd person singular present form of the verb a vorbi, meaning to speak or to talk.

So:

• eu vorbesc = I speak
• tu vorbești = you speak
• el/ea vorbește = he/she speaks

In this sentence, vorbește despre means talks about or speaks about.

A helpful approximation is vor-BESH-te.

Notes:

• ș is pronounced like sh in shoe
• ește sounds roughly like ESH-te
• Stress is usually on the second syllable here: vor-BEȘ-te

So the full sentence sounds roughly like: El vor-BEȘ-te DES-pre o-NOA-re.

Despre is a preposition meaning about or concerning.

So:

• a vorbi despre ceva = to talk about something
• despre onoare = about honor

It is a very common word and is used in many contexts:

• o carte despre istorie = a book about history
• vorbim despre muncă = we talk about work

Onoare is the basic indefinite form, meaning honor in a general sense.

In despre onoare, the noun is being used generically:

• about honor

If you say despre onoarea, that means about the honor, but it usually needs more context, because the definite form often points to a specific honor:

• despre onoarea familiei = about the family’s honor

So:

• despre onoare = about honor, honor as a concept
• despre onoarea cuiva = about someone’s honor

Yes. Onoare is feminine.

You can see that in forms like:

• o onoare = an honor
• onoarea = the honor

Even though this sentence does not show an article, learners often want to know the noun’s gender, and here it is feminine.

Not in any obvious way here. Romanian grammars sometimes describe despre as taking the accusative, but for many nouns the form looks the same as the basic dictionary form.

So in practice, you can simply learn:

• despre + noun/pronoun = about + noun/pronoun

Examples:

• despre onoare = about honor
• despre mine = about me
• despre el = about him

The main thing to remember is the preposition despre, not a visible noun ending change in this example.

Yes. The Romanian present tense often covers both ideas:

• He speaks about honor
• He is speaking about honor

Context tells you which one is meant.

If you want to make the ongoing action more explicit, Romanian can also use structures like:

• El vorbește acum despre onoare. = He is talking about honor now.

Yes. Romanian word order is fairly flexible, though El vorbește despre onoare is the most neutral order.

Other orders are possible for emphasis:

• Despre onoare vorbește el. = It is about honor that he is speaking.
• El despre onoare vorbește. = also possible, but more marked

A learner should usually start with the neutral order: subject + verb + prepositional phrase

Good question. They are related, but not the same.

• a vorbi despre ceva = to talk about something
• a spune ceva = to say something

So:

• El vorbește despre onoare. = He talks about honor.
• El spune că onoarea este importantă. = He says that honor is important.

Use a vorbi despre when the topic is important. Use a spune when focusing on the actual statement or words spoken.

No. In this sentence, despre is the correct preposition because the meaning is about.

Pe has many other uses in Romanian, but it does not mean about in this structure.

So:

• vorbește despre onoare = correct
• vorbește pe onoare = not correct for this meaning

In normal Romanian, el means he. It can also refer back to a masculine noun in some contexts, which English might translate as it, but for a learner, the main meaning is he.

So in this sentence, the natural reading is:

• He talks about honor.

If the subject were feminine, it would be:

• Ea vorbește despre onoare. = She talks about honor.

You add nu before the verb:

• El nu vorbește despre onoare. = He does not talk / is not talking about honor.

This is the normal way to negate present-tense verbs in Romanian:

• vorbește = speaks
• nu vorbește = does not speak

Yes. This is a very useful pattern:

El vorbește despre + noun

Examples:

• El vorbește despre familie. = He talks about family.
• El vorbește despre istorie. = He talks about history.
• El vorbește despre dragoste. = He talks about love.

So despre is the key word to remember for about in this kind of sentence.