Tata lucrează de acasă de trei zile și spune că este mai bine aici.

Tata is a very common, natural way to say Dad in Romanian.

A few useful points:

• tată = father (dictionary form)
• tata = the father / dad
• In real family speech, tata often means my dad / our dad, even though meu is not stated.

So:

• Tata lucrează... = Dad is working...
• Tatăl meu lucrează... = My father is working...

The version with tata sounds more natural and everyday.
The version with tatăl meu is more explicit and can sound a bit more formal or emphatic.

Romanian often drops subject pronouns when they are not needed, because the verb ending already shows the person.

Here:

• lucrează = he/she works, is working

So Tata lucrează already clearly means Dad works / Dad is working.
You could say El lucrează, but Romanian usually avoids the pronoun unless you want contrast or emphasis.

For example:

• Tata lucrează = neutral
• El lucrează, nu eu = He is working, not me

Lucrează is the 3rd person singular present of the verb a lucra = to work.

So:

• eu lucrez = I work
• tu lucrezi = you work
• el/ea lucrează = he/she works

In this sentence, it agrees with Tata, which is third person singular.

Also, Romanian present tense can often translate into English in more than one way depending on context:

• Tata lucrează de acasă
  can mean
  Dad works from home
  or
  Dad is working from home

Because the sentence also has de trei zile, English naturally becomes has been working from home for three days.

This is a very common difference between Romanian and English.

Romanian often uses the present tense for an action that:

• started in the past
• is still continuing now

That is exactly what happens here:

• lucrează ... de trei zile = has been working ... for three days

So although the Romanian verb is present tense, the most natural English translation is often present perfect continuous.

More examples:

• Locuiesc aici de doi ani. = I have lived / have been living here for two years.
• Te aștept de o oră. = I have been waiting for you for an hour.

Because the two instances of de do different jobs.

1. de acasă

Here de means something like from in the expression de acasă = from home.

• lucrează de acasă = works from home

This is a fixed and very common phrase.

2. de trei zile

Here de introduces a duration that started in the past and continues now.

• de trei zile = for three days / for the past three days

So the sentence has two separate structures:

• de acasă = from home
• de trei zile = for three days

They just happen to use the same preposition.

No. In this expression, you should understand de acasă as a set phrase meaning from home.

Romanian de has many meanings depending on context, including:

• of
• from
• about
• for
• than

So it is not safe to translate de literally the same way every time.

Here:

• lucrează de acasă = works from home
• not works of home

Because de + time period is the normal Romanian way to say that something has been happening for a certain amount of time and is still continuing.

• de trei zile = for three days / for the past three days

If you say pentru trei zile, that usually means for a period of three days in a more planned, limited, or future-oriented sense, not necessarily continuing up to now.

Compare:

• Lucrează de trei zile. = He has been working for three days.
• Pleacă pentru trei zile. = He is leaving for three days.

So in your sentence, de trei zile is the correct choice.

It means and says that.

Breakdown:

• și = and
• spune = says
• că = that

So:

• și spune că este mai bine aici
  = and says that it is better here

A useful point: Romanian often uses că where English may use that, and just like in English, that can sometimes be omitted in translation. But in Romanian, că is very common and often sounds more natural than leaving it out.

Both are possible.

• este = full form
• e = shorter, very common spoken form

So these are both natural:

• spune că este mai bine aici
• spune că e mai bine aici

The version with este can sound a bit more careful or slightly more formal in writing.
The version with e is extremely common in everyday Romanian.

Mai bine means better.

It is the comparative form of bine = well / good in many contexts.

Here it is used in an impersonal structure:

• este mai bine aici = it is better here

Romanian often says:

• E bine aici. = It is good here.
• E mai bine aici. = It is better here.

Notice that Romanian does not need a separate word for it in this kind of sentence. English requires it is, but Romanian simply says este or e.

Because that is the natural place for it in this sentence.

• este mai bine aici = it is better here

Romanian word order is fairly flexible, but the sentence-final aici sounds very natural because it gives the location after the evaluation mai bine.

You could move things around in some contexts for emphasis, but the original order is the most neutral and normal one.

For example:

• Este mai bine aici. = neutral
• Aici este mai bine. = stronger emphasis on here

Aici means here, from the speaker’s or the subject’s point of view in the situation.

So the sentence suggests something like:

• Dad has been working from home for three days
• and he says it is better here, meaning at home / in this place

Even though de acasă already tells us he is working from home, aici adds a comparison or opinion about the location.

It implies something like:

• better here than at the office
• better here than somewhere else

Yes, but the full sentence strongly points to an ongoing current situation.

Without the time phrase:

• Tata lucrează de acasă.
  could mean
  Dad works from home
  or
  Dad is working from home

With de trei zile, the meaning becomes clearly ongoing:

• Tata lucrează de acasă de trei zile
  = Dad has been working from home for three days

So context and time expressions help decide the best English translation.

It is mostly neutral, everyday Romanian.

A few style notes:

• Tata makes it personal and natural, a bit informal/familiar
• este instead of e is slightly more full/formal in tone
• overall, the sentence sounds completely normal and standard

A more explicitly formal version might be:

• Tatăl meu lucrează de acasă de trei zile și spune că este mai bine aici.

A more conversational version might be:

• Tata lucrează de acasă de trei zile și spune că e mai bine aici.

Both are correct.

Yes, a few useful ones:

• lucrează: the ă is a short central vowel, not like English a
• că: also contains ă
• zile: the z is pronounced like English z
• și is pronounced roughly like sh'
  • a short i
• aici is pronounced approximately ah-EECH

Very roughly:

• Tata = TA-ta
• lucrează = loo-KREH-zuh
• de acasă = deh ah-KAH-suh
• de trei zile = deh tray ZEE-leh
• și spune că este mai bine aici = sh' spoo-neh kuh YES-teh my BEE-neh ah-EECH

These are only approximations, but they can help at the start.

Yes, but it depends on how it is being used.

In normal Romanian sentences like this, tata is usually written with a lowercase letter unless it begins the sentence.

Here it is capitalized simply because it is the first word:

• Tata lucrează...

If it appeared in the middle of a sentence, it would usually be:

• Astăzi tata lucrează de acasă.

Some people may capitalize family words like Mama or Tata in personal writing, but that is stylistic, not the standard rule.