Asociația de proprietari a primit mesajul.

Yes. Asociație means association, and asociația means the association.

Romanian usually puts the definite article at the end of the noun instead of using a separate word like English the.

• asociație = association
• asociația = the association

So Asociația de proprietari literally looks like association-the of owners, but in natural English it means the homeowners' association or the association of owners.

De proprietari means of owners.

Breakdown:

• de = of
• proprietari = owners / property owners

So:

• asociație de proprietari = association of owners
• asociația de proprietari = the association of owners

In many contexts, this is best translated naturally as the homeowners' association.

After de, Romanian often uses the noun in an indefinite form when expressing a general relationship like association of owners.

So:

• proprietari = owners
• proprietarii = the owners

Here, asociația de proprietari names the type of association, so Romanian normally uses proprietari, not proprietarii.

Using de proprietarii would sound like you mean a very specific group of owners in a different, more marked construction, not the usual name of the organization.

Here, a is the auxiliary verb used to form the perfectul compus, a very common Romanian past tense.

So:

• a primit = received / has received

Breakdown:

• a = has (auxiliary for 3rd person singular)
• primit = received

This does not mean the main verb to have in the ordinary sense. It is just helping form the past tense.

It can mean either, depending on context.

Romanian perfectul compus often covers both:

• English received
• English has received

So Asociația de proprietari a primit mesajul can mean:

• The homeowners' association received the message
• The homeowners' association has received the message

English chooses between those two more clearly than Romanian does.

In this tense, the past participle usually stays the same.

So in a primit, primit does not change to match asociația, even though asociația is feminine.

Compare:

• El a primit = He received
• Ea a primit = She received
• Asociația a primit = The association received

The form primit stays the same here.

Mesajul means the message, while mesaj means a message or just message.

Again, Romanian usually adds the definite article to the end of the noun:

• mesaj = message
• mesajul = the message

So the sentence refers to a specific message:

• a primit mesajul = received the message

The given order is the most neutral one:

• Asociația de proprietari = subject
• a primit = verb
• mesajul = object

So this is a standard Subject–Verb–Object sentence.

Romanian is somewhat flexible, though. Other orders are possible for emphasis, for example:

• Mesajul l-a primit asociația de proprietari = It was the homeowners' association that received the message / The message was received by the homeowners' association

But for a learner, the original sentence is the normal, straightforward version.

A simple approximate pronunciation is:

a-so-chee-A-tsya de pro-prye-tahr a pree-MEET मे-SA-jul

More carefully:

• Asociația ≈ a-so-ci-a-tsi-a, with ți sounding like tsy
• de ≈ de
• proprietari ≈ pro-prye-tar
• a ≈ a short uh / ah
• primit ≈ pree-meet
• mesajul ≈ me-sa-zhul, where j sounds like the s in measure

A few useful sound notes:

• ă is a short central vowel, like a relaxed uh
• ț is ts
• j is like the sound in beige or the s in measure

It is a feminine singular noun in the definite form.

Base form:

• asociație = association

Definite singular:

• asociația = the association

That is why you see the ending -a here.

Yes, very much so. It is a common real-life expression in Romania.

It refers to the organization that manages a residential building or group of apartments on behalf of the owners. In English, depending on context, it can be translated as:

• homeowners' association
• owners' association
• apartment owners' association

So this is not just any random phrase; it is a very common administrative term.

You can understand it word for word, but the best English translation is usually more natural than a strict literal version.

Word-for-word:

• Asociația = the association
• de proprietari = of owners
• a primit = received / has received
• mesajul = the message

Literal result:

• The association of owners received the message

Natural English:

• The homeowners' association received the message

Both are correct, but the second one sounds more natural in English.