Ana vorbește bine română.

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Breakdown of Ana vorbește bine română.

• a vorbi: to speak
• româna: the Romanian language
• bine: well

Questions & Answers about Ana vorbește bine română.

What tense and person is vorbește, and how does it relate to the infinitive a vorbi?

vorbește is the 3rd person singular present indicative of a vorbi (“to speak”). Verbs of this conjugation (ending in -i) use the stem vorb- plus the ending -ește for “he/she speaks.”

Why is there no subject pronoun meaning “she” in the sentence?

Romanian is a pro-drop language: the verb ending -ește already tells you the subject is “he” or “she.” You only add ea (“she”) if you want to emphasize it:
 •• Ea vorbește bine română.

What role does bine play, and why is it placed between vorbește and română?

bine is an adverb meaning “well,” modifying the verb vorbește. In Romanian the neutral word order for verb + adverb + object is:
 •• vorbește bine română.
Moving bine elsewhere (e.g. before the verb) sounds emphatic or less natural.

Why isn’t română capitalized like “Romanian” in English?

In Romanian orthography, names of languages are written in lowercase. So română stays lowercase even though English “Romanian” is capitalized.