Breakdown of Pe masă sunt două documente și un formular pentru profesoară.
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Here pe means on: pe masă = on the table.
A learner may already know pe as the marker used with some direct objects, especially people, but that is a different use. In this sentence, pe is simply a preposition of place.
Romanian often uses a bare noun after a preposition in common location expressions, especially when the place is obvious from context.
So pe masă is a very natural way to say on the table.
If you say pe masa, you make the noun feel more explicitly definite, and it is especially common when the table is identified further, for example:
- pe masa din bucătărie = on the table in the kitchen
- pe masa profesoarei = on the teacher’s table
So pe masă is the normal idiomatic choice here.
Romanian usually does not need a separate word like English there in there is / there are.
Instead, it often just uses the verb a fi = to be:
- Este un document. = There is a document.
- Sunt două documente. = There are two documents.
So in this sentence, sunt simply does the job of are in an existential sentence.