La ședință mai vine și Ana.

Romanian word order is much more flexible than English word order.

In this sentence, La ședință is placed first to set the scene: as for the meeting / to the meeting. Then the important new piece of information comes later: și Ana.

So the structure is roughly:

• La ședință = to/at the meeting
• mai vine = is also coming
• și Ana = Ana too / Ana as well

Putting Ana at the end gives it extra focus. It is a very natural Romanian way to say something like:

• Ana is coming to the meeting too.
• Also Ana is coming to the meeting.
• Ana is another person who is coming to the meeting.

Romanian could also use other word orders, but they would change the emphasis slightly.

Here mai helps express the idea of addition: another person too / also.

That is important because mai can mean different things in different contexts, such as:

• more
• still
• again
• also / in addition

In La ședință mai vine și Ana, the meaning is additive: Ana is also coming.

A useful way to feel it is:

• vine și Ana = Ana is coming too
• mai vine și Ana = another person is coming too, namely Ana

So mai adds the idea of one more person being included.

Yes, și can already mean also / too, but Romanian often uses mai together with și to make the additive meaning stronger or more natural.

In this sentence:

• și Ana = Ana too / Ana as well
• mai vine și Ana = Ana is also coming, as one more person

So the combination mai ... și often gives the sense of in addition.

Compare:

• Vine și Ana. = Ana is coming too.
• Mai vine și Ana. = Ana is also coming / another person coming is Ana.

The second version often sounds a bit more like you are adding Ana to a list of people already mentioned or already expected.

Yes, it can in other sentences. That is why learners often notice it.

For example:

• Ana mai vine? could mean Is Ana still coming? or Is Ana coming again?, depending on context.
• Ana mai vine la noi. can mean Ana still comes to our place.

But in La ședință mai vine și Ana, the presence of și Ana strongly pushes the meaning toward addition:

• Ana is coming too
• Ana is also coming

So in this sentence, the natural reading is not still or again, but also.

La ședință means to the meeting or at the meeting, depending on context.

The preposition la is commonly used with events, institutions, and destinations:

• la școală = to/at school
• la birou = to/at the office
• la doctor = to the doctor
• la ședință = to/at the meeting

Here, because the verb is vine (comes), la ședință is understood as the destination of the movement: to the meeting.

Romanian often uses la where English chooses either to or at, so the exact English translation depends on the whole sentence, not just the preposition by itself.

This is a very common question.

Ședință is the noun meeting.
Ședința is the meeting.

Romanian often uses the bare noun after prepositions like la in a general or event-based way, especially when the situation is already understood from context. So la ședință is very natural for to/at the meeting.

You can also have la ședința, especially when the meeting is clearly identified, often with extra information:

• la ședința de azi = to today’s meeting
• la ședința comitetului = to the committee meeting

So:

• la ședință = natural, common, often more general or context-based
• la ședința ... = more explicitly definite/specific

Because a veni means to come, while a merge means to go.

• vine = comes
• merge = goes

Romanian, like English, chooses between come and go depending on viewpoint.

So:

• Ana vine la ședință. = Ana is coming to the meeting.
• Ana merge la ședință. = Ana is going to the meeting.

Both can be correct in the right context, but they present the movement from different perspectives. Your sentence uses vine, so the idea is coming.

Yes. Ana is the subject.

Romanian does not require the subject to stand before the verb the way English usually does. The subject can come after the verb, especially when it is the new or emphasized information.

So in:

• La ședință mai vine și Ana

the subject is still Ana, and the verb vine is singular because Ana is singular.

This post-verbal subject position is very normal in Romanian.

Și can mean and, but it can also mean also / too / even, depending on position and context.

Here, și Ana means:

• Ana too
• Ana as well
• also Ana

So although și is often first learned as and, it is much more flexible than that.

Examples:

• Ana și Maria = Ana and Maria
• Vine și Ana = Ana is coming too
• Și Ana știe. = Ana knows too / Even Ana knows

In your sentence, it is definitely the also/too meaning.

A good approximation is:

sheh-DIN-tsuh

Breakdown:

• ș = sh as in ship
• e = like e in bed
• din = roughly deen/din, with a short Romanian i
• ț = ts as in cats
• final ă = a very short neutral vowel, like the last sound in sofa

The stress is on the middle syllable:

• șe-DIN-ță

So: șe-DIN-ță.