Tastatura mea este curată, dar ecranul tău este plin de praf.

In Romanian, possessive adjectives usually come after the noun:

• tastatura mea = my keyboard
• ecranul tău = your screen

This is the normal pattern in everyday Romanian. English does the opposite (my keyboard, your screen), so this often feels unusual at first.

A useful basic pattern is:

• noun + possessive adjective

Examples:

• cartea mea = my book
• telefonul tău = your phone

Romanian can sometimes move possessive elements around in special structures, but in a simple sentence like this, post-noun position is standard.

Because Romanian possessive adjectives must agree with the noun being possessed, not with the owner.

Here:

• tastatura is feminine singular, so you use mea
• ecranul is masculine/neuter singular, so you use tău

So:

• mea = feminine singular form of my
• tău = masculine singular form of your

A few common forms are:

• meu = my (masculine singular)
• mea = my (feminine singular)
• tău = your (masculine singular)
• ta = your (feminine singular)

Compare:

• telefonul meu = my phone
• cartea mea = my book
• calculatorul tău = your computer
• mașina ta = your car

Because curată is an adjective describing tastatura, and Romanian adjectives agree with the noun in gender and number.

• tastatura = feminine singular
• therefore curată = feminine singular form of clean

Compare:

• un ecran curat = a clean screen
• o tastatură curată = a clean keyboard

So the adjective changes form depending on the noun:

• curat = masculine/neuter singular
• curată = feminine singular
• curați / curate = plural forms

This agreement is one of the biggest differences from English, where clean never changes.

Because ecranul means the screen.

Romanian usually puts the definite article at the end of the noun, not as a separate word like English the.

So:

• ecran = screen
• ecranul = the screen

This is called the enclitic definite article.

Other examples:

• băiat = boy → băiatul = the boy
• fată = girl → fata = the girl
• telefon = phone → telefonul = the phone

In your sentence, ecranul tău means your screen or literally the screen of yours, which is the natural Romanian way to say it.

It actually already does.

• tastatură = a keyboard
• tastatura = the keyboard

For many feminine nouns ending in -ă, the definite article changes the ending:

• tastatură → tastatura

So both nouns here are definite:

• tastatura mea = my keyboard
• ecranul tău = your screen

Romanian often uses the definite form with possessives, so this structure is very normal.

They mean the same thing here.

• este = is
• e = a shortened form of este

So:

• Tastatura mea este curată = My keyboard is clean
• dar ecranul tău e plin de praf = but your screen is full of dust

Using e is very common in speech and informal writing. Using este sounds a bit fuller or slightly more formal, but both are correct.

You could also say:

• Tastatura mea e curată, dar ecranul tău e plin de praf.
• Tastatura mea este curată, dar ecranul tău este plin de praf.

Both are fine.

Yes. Dar means but and is used very much like English but to connect two contrasting ideas.

Here the contrast is:

• my keyboard is clean
• but your screen is dusty

So:

• dar = but

Example:

• E mic, dar puternic. = It’s small, but powerful.

It is one of the most common Romanian conjunctions.

Literally, plin de praf means full of dust.

Breakdown:

• plin = full
• de = of
• praf = dust

So Romanian says:

• este plin de praf = is full of dust

In natural English, that may be translated as:

• is dusty
• is covered in dust
• is full of dust

All of these can fit depending on context.

This pattern is very common in Romanian:

• plin de apă = full of water
• plin de oameni = full of people
• plin de probleme = full of problems

Because plin describes ecranul, and ecranul is singular masculine/neuter in this context.

So the adjective must agree with ecranul:

• ecranul → plin
• if it were a feminine noun, you would usually get plină

Compare:

• ecranul este plin de praf = the screen is full of dust
• camera este plină de praf = the room is full of dust

Again, adjective agreement is doing the work here.

Yes — ecran is a neuter noun.

In Romanian, neuter nouns behave:

• like masculine in the singular
• like feminine in the plural

So in the singular:

• un ecran
• ecranul
• curat
• plin

That is why it looks masculine here.

If you were talking about the plural, you would see the feminine-type behavior:

• ecranele = the screens

This masculine-in-the-singular / feminine-in-the-plural pattern is typical for Romanian neuter nouns.

Yes, absolutely.

Romanian word order is fairly flexible, especially when you are just changing what comes first for emphasis.

Both are correct:

• Tastatura mea este curată, dar ecranul tău este plin de praf.
• Ecranul tău este plin de praf, dar tastatura mea este curată.

The difference is mainly about focus:

• starting with Tastatura mea highlights my keyboard
• starting with Ecranul tău highlights your screen

So the original order is not the only possible one.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

• Tastatura mea este curată
  tahs-tah-TOO-rah meh-ah EHS-teh koo-ruh-TUH
• dar ecranul tău este plin de praf
  dar eh-KRAH-nool tuh-oo EHS-teh pleen deh prahf

A few helpful notes:

• ă is a short central vowel, something like the sound in the second syllable of sofa
• â / î is a different central sound, deeper and tenser
• eu / meu / tău often sound like one syllable or nearly so in natural speech
• e is often pronounced clearly as eh

If you want, you can also think of the rhythm in chunks:

• Tastatura mea | este curată | dar | ecranul tău | este plin de praf

Yes, it can be shortened in conversation, but the full version is perfectly natural and very clear.

Full:

• Tastatura mea este curată, dar ecranul tău este plin de praf.

More conversational:

• Tastatura mea e curată, dar ecranul tău e plin de praf.

Romanian often keeps the subject noun phrases when contrasting two things, as in this sentence. That makes the contrast very clear:

• my keyboard vs your screen

So even though shorter versions are possible, the original sentence sounds normal and idiomatic.