Sperăm să nu întârzie Ana, deși autobuzul vine rar seara.

Both structures can exist in Romanian, but they do not work in exactly the same way.

In Sperăm să nu întârzie Ana, the pattern a spera + să + verb is very common when you mean we hope that something will happen / won’t happen. Here, să întârzie is in the Romanian subjunctive.

• sperăm = we hope
• să nu întârzie = that she won’t be late / that she doesn’t arrive late

Using că would introduce a more factual statement, while să is the normal choice after verbs of wishing, hoping, wanting, etc.

So this sentence uses the natural Romanian structure for We hope Ana won’t be late.

Să întârzie is not a tense in the same way as English present or past. It is the subjunctive mood.

Romanian often uses the subjunctive after verbs that express:

• desire
• hope
• possibility
• necessity
• intention

In this sentence:

• sperăm = main verb
• să întârzie = subordinate verb in the subjunctive

The marker să usually signals the subjunctive. The form întârzie here is the 3rd person singular form.

So să nu întârzie Ana means something like:

• that Ana not be late
• more naturally in English: that Ana won’t be late

In Romanian, negation with nu normally goes directly before the verb.

So:

• întârzie = is late / arrives late
• nu întârzie = is not late / does not arrive late
• să nu întârzie = not to be late / that she not be late

This is standard Romanian word order for negation.

Romanian word order is more flexible than English word order.

English strongly prefers:

• We hope Ana won’t be late

Romanian can say either:

• Sperăm să nu întârzie Ana
• Sperăm ca Ana să nu întârzie (also possible, with a slightly different structure)

Placing Ana after the verb is natural in Romanian, especially when the speaker is focusing on the event first and then naming the subject. It does not sound as unusual in Romanian as it would in English.

So să nu întârzie Ana is perfectly normal Romanian word order.

Yes, that is also possible.

Compare:

• Sperăm să nu întârzie Ana
• Sperăm ca Ana să nu întârzie

Both mean essentially the same thing: We hope Ana won’t be late.

The version with ca Ana să... makes the subject Ana appear earlier and may feel a little more explicit or balanced. The version in your sentence is more compact.

Important detail:

• In modern Romanian, after many verbs like a spera, the simpler să construction is very common.
• ca ... să is also a normal pattern in Romanian subordinate clauses.

Romanian often uses the present tense where English might also use the present, especially for:

• habitual actions
• schedules
• general truths

In autobuzul vine rar seara:

• vine = comes
• rar = rarely
• seara = in the evening / evenings

So the meaning is habitual: the bus comes rarely in the evening or more natural English: the bus doesn’t come often in the evening.

This is not really a special future form. It is a general statement about how often the bus comes in the evenings.

Deși means although / even though.

It introduces a concessive clause: a clause that presents a fact that contrasts with the main clause.

In your sentence:

• Sperăm să nu întârzie Ana = We hope Ana won’t be late
• deși autobuzul vine rar seara = although the bus comes rarely in the evening

So the second part gives a reason why being late is possible, while the first part expresses hope anyway.

Other examples:

• Deși plouă, plecăm. = Although it’s raining, we’re leaving.
• Deși e târziu, mai lucrează. = Even though it’s late, he/she is still working.

Rar means rarely or seldom.

In Romanian, adverbs like rar often come after the verb:

• autobuzul vine rar = the bus comes rarely

That word order is very natural.

You may also see adverbs in other positions depending on emphasis, but verb + rar is the most straightforward pattern here.

Here seara means in the evening or in the evenings, depending on context.

Romanian often uses forms like:

• dimineața = in the morning
• ziua = during the day
• seara = in the evening
• noaptea = at night

So:

• autobuzul vine rar seara = the bus comes rarely in the evening / in the evenings

This is a very common adverbial use. You do not need în here.

It can cover both ideas depending on context.

The verb a întârzia usually means:

• to be late
• to arrive late
• to delay
• to be delayed

In your sentence, să nu întârzie Ana most naturally means:

• that Ana won’t be late or
• that Ana won’t arrive late

English may choose one phrasing or the other depending on context, but Romanian uses the same verb.

Proper names in Romanian normally do not take an article in this kind of sentence.

So:

• Ana = Ana

You simply use the name directly:

• Ana vine
• O așteptăm pe Ana
• Sperăm să nu întârzie Ana

Romanian does have article-like forms attached to common nouns, but proper names usually behave differently.

A very literal breakdown would be:

• Sperăm = we hope
• să = subjunctive marker, roughly that / to
• nu = not
• întârzie = be late / arrive late
• Ana = Ana
• deși = although
• autobuzul = the bus
• vine = comes
• rar = rarely
• seara = in the evening

So a very literal version would be:

We hope that not be-late Ana, although the bus comes rarely in the evening.

Of course, natural English would be:

We hope Ana won’t be late, although the bus doesn’t come often in the evening.

Autobuzul is autobuz + the definite article.

Romanian usually attaches the definite article to the end of the noun:

• autobuz = bus
• autobuzul = the bus

This is one of the most important features of Romanian grammar.

Other examples:

• băiat = boy
• băiatul = the boy
• carte = book
• cartea = the book

So in your sentence, autobuzul vine rar seara means the bus comes rarely in the evening.