Dacă vrei, îți fac orez cu legume și îl amestec cu puțin unt.

Dacă vrei literally means if you want.

• dacă = if
• vrei = you want (2nd person singular, from a vrea)

Romanian often uses the present tense here just like English does in sentences such as If you want, I’ll make... So even though the whole sentence refers to a possible future action, vrei stays in the present.

Yes. vrei is the informal singular form, used when speaking to one person with tu.

So this sentence is addressed to:

• one person
• in an informal way

If you were speaking formally to one person, you would usually say something like:

• Dacă doriți, vă fac orez cu legume...

And to more than one person informally:

• Dacă vreți...

Îți means to you / for you.

It is the unstressed dative pronoun for tu. In this sentence, îți fac means:

• I make you...
• more naturally in English: I’ll make you... or I’ll make some ... for you

So:

• fac = I make
• îți fac = I make for you / I’ll make you

Romanian often uses this little pronoun where English might just imply the idea of for you.

Yes, a face usually means to do or to make, but Romanian also uses it very naturally for preparing food.

So:

• îți fac orez = I’ll make you rice / I’ll cook some rice for you

This is very common in everyday speech. English often prefers cook, but Romanian can use a face in many food contexts:

• Fac cafea. = I’m making coffee.
• Fac supă. = I’m making soup.

Orez cu legume literally means rice with vegetables.

• orez = rice
• cu = with
• legume = vegetables

This is the normal Romanian way to say a dish made of rice plus vegetables. Cu is the straightforward preposition here.

So:

• orez cu legume = rice with vegetables
• not necessarily a fixed dish name, just a clear description

Romanian often leaves nouns without an article when speaking about food in a general or indefinite sense.

So:

• fac orez = I’m making rice / some rice
• cu legume = with vegetables

This is similar to English, where you also usually say rice rather than the rice unless you mean a specific rice already identified.

If the rice were specific, you might see:

• orezul = the rice

But here it is just indefinite food being prepared.

Îl means it, and it refers back to orez.

So:

• îl amestec = I mix it

Romanian often uses object pronouns before the verb:

• îl = him/it (masculine singular direct object)
• amestec = I mix

So the word order is:

• îl amestec = literally it I mix

In natural English: and I mix it...

Yes. Orez is a masculine noun, so the pronoun that refers to it is masculine singular: îl.

That is why Romanian says:

• orez → îl

Even though in English rice is just it, Romanian pronouns must match the noun’s grammatical gender.

Because unstressed object pronouns in Romanian normally come before the conjugated verb.

So Romanian says:

• îl amestec not
• amestec îl

This is a very common pattern:

• îl văd = I see him/it
• o cunosc = I know her
• te chem = I’m calling you

So in your sentence, îl amestec is the normal standard word order.

Amestec comes from a amesteca, meaning to mix or to stir.

In this sentence:

• îl amestec cu puțin unt = I mix it with a little butter

Depending on context, English might translate this as:

• mix
• stir
• stir in

So a very natural English idea here is:

• I’ll mix/stir in a little butter

Because puțin here works like a little and is used directly before the noun.

So:

• puțin unt = a little butter

You do not say:

• un puțin unt

This is similar to:

• puțină apă = a little water
• puțin zahăr = a little sugar

Also, unt is being used in an indefinite, non-count sense here, so there is no article.

It is puțin because it agrees with the noun phrase in the way Romanian normally handles quantity expressions here.

With mass nouns like unt (butter), Romanian commonly uses:

• puțin unt = a little butter

You would use puțină with many feminine nouns, for example:

• puțină apă = a little water

But with unt, the standard form is:

• puțin unt

And puținul would mean something like the little amount of..., which is not what this sentence is saying.

Și means and.

It links the two actions:

• îți fac orez cu legume
• îl amestec cu puțin unt

So the speaker is offering to do two connected things:

1. make rice with vegetables
2. mix it with a little butter

Very straightforward coordination, just like English and.

Because Dacă vrei is an introductory conditional clause: If you want.

Romanian normally separates that kind of opening clause with a comma:

• Dacă vrei, îți fac...

This is very similar to English punctuation:

• If you want, I’ll make...

Grammatically, fac is present tense: I make.

But in context, Romanian often uses the present tense to express a near-future or intended action, especially in offers and spontaneous decisions.

So:

• îți fac orez literally = I make you rice
• natural English = I’ll make you rice

This is very common and natural in Romanian conversation.

Yes, very natural.

It sounds like a casual offer in spoken Romanian:

• Dacă vrei, îți fac... = If you want, I’ll make you...

The sentence is conversational and idiomatic:

• îți fac sounds normal
• orez cu legume is clear and natural
• îl amestec cu puțin unt is also perfectly normal

A native speaker would understand it immediately as a friendly offer.