Andrei mi-a trimis un link nou, dar eu l-am deschis doar seara.

Mi-a trimis breaks down as:

• mi = to me
• a trimis = sent / has sent

So Andrei mi-a trimis literally means Andrei sent to me. In natural English, that is simply Andrei sent me.

Romanian often uses a short indirect-object pronoun like mi where English just puts the person directly after the verb.

Because mi and mă / m- do different jobs:

• mi = to me (indirect object)
• mă / m- = me as a direct object

In this sentence, Andrei did not send me as the thing being sent. He sent a link to me. So Romanian uses mi.

Compare:

• Mi-a trimis un link. = He sent me a link.
• M-a văzut. = He saw me.

The hyphen joins a short unstressed pronoun to the auxiliary verb in writing.

So:

• mi-a = mi + a
• l-am = l + am

This is very common in Romanian with short pronouns and forms of a avea used in the compound past.

It helps show that these little words are tightly connected in pronunciation and grammar.

L-am deschis means I opened it.

Here:

• l- = it / him (direct-object pronoun)
• am deschis = I opened

In this sentence, l- refers to un link nou. Since link is treated as masculine singular here, Romanian uses l-.

So:

• link = the thing
• l-am deschis = I opened it

Because Romanian often uses a pronoun to refer back to something already mentioned, just like English uses it.

The sentence first introduces un link nou. Then later, instead of repeating linkul, Romanian says l-am deschis = I opened it.

You could also say:

• Andrei mi-a trimis un link nou, dar eu am deschis linkul doar seara.

But that sounds more repetitive. Using l-am deschis is more natural.

Both verbs are in the perfectul compus, the Romanian compound past tense.

They are formed with:

• a form of a avea as an auxiliary
• the past participle

Examples from the sentence:

• a trimis = he sent
• am deschis = I opened

This is the most common way in Romanian to talk about completed actions in the past.

Yes, the verb already shows the subject, so eu is not required.

• l-am deschis already means I opened it

The pronoun eu is added for emphasis or contrast. Here it contrasts Andrei with I:

• Andrei sent it,
• but I opened it only in the evening.

So dar eu sounds like but I with a slightly stronger contrast.

In Romanian, adjectives usually come after the noun:

• un link nou = a new link

Putting the adjective before the noun is possible in some cases, but it often sounds more literary, emphatic, or stylistically marked.

So the normal everyday order is:

• noun + adjective
• link nou
• casă mare
• om bun

It is a common modern borrowing from English, especially in technology and internet contexts. Romanian speakers use it very naturally.

It is generally treated as a neuter noun, which means:

• singular behaves like masculine: un link
• plural behaves like feminine: două linkuri or două link-uri

You may see variation in spelling of the plural, but link itself is very common.

Romanian can use certain time expressions adverbially without a preposition.

So:

• seara = in the evening / in the evenings
• dimineața = in the morning
• noaptea = at night

In this sentence, doar seara means only in the evening.

English needs a preposition here, but Romanian often does not.

Doar means only / just.

So doar seara means:

• only in the evening
• not earlier, just in the evening

It emphasizes that the opening happened late in the day, and not when the link was first received.

Depending on context, Romanian might also use abia seara, which often sounds like only later, in the evening or not until the evening. That version can suggest delay even more strongly.

Yes. Romanian word order is fairly flexible, especially with pronouns and adverbials.

This sentence could be rearranged slightly depending on emphasis. For example:

• Andrei mi-a trimis un link nou, dar eu doar seara l-am deschis.
• Andrei mi-a trimis un link nou, dar l-am deschis doar seara.

These all mean roughly the same thing, but the focus changes a bit.

• eu highlights the subject
• doar seara highlights the time
• moving l-am deschis earlier can make the sentence sound a bit smoother or more neutral

A simple approximate pronunciation is:

An-DRAY mee-a TREE-mees oon link noh, dar yeh-ooh l-am deh-SKEES doh-ar SYAH-ra

A few helpful notes:

• Andrei sounds roughly like An-dray
• trimis has stress on the second syllable: tri-MIS
• deschis has stress on the second syllable: des-CHIS
• eu is usually one syllable, something like yeu
• seara is two syllables: sea-ra

The exact sounds are more precise in Romanian than English spelling suggests, but this should give a useful starting point.