Cușca de transport este maro.

Because Romanian often adds the definite article to the end of the noun instead of using a separate word like English the.

• cușcă = a cage
• cușca = the cage

Here, cușca is feminine singular, and the definite article is -a.

de transport means something like for transport or used for transport.

So:

• cușcă = cage
• cușcă de transport = transport cage / cage for transporting something

Romanian often uses de + noun to create this kind of descriptive phrase, much like English uses noun modifiers.

Romanian usually uses a postposed definite article, meaning the article is attached to the noun.

Compare:

• English: the cage
• Romanian: cușca

This is a very common feature of Romanian and one of the first things English speakers notice.

este means is.

It is the 3rd person singular form of the verb a fi = to be.

So:

• este = is

In this sentence, it links the subject cușca de transport with the adjective maro.

Normally, no. In a standard sentence like this, Romanian keeps the verb a fi.

So:

• Cușca de transport este maro. = correct
• Omitting este would sound incomplete in normal Romanian.

In casual speech, though, people often shorten este to e:

• Cușca de transport e maro.

That is very common and natural.

Because maro is an invariable adjective in Romanian. That means it usually stays the same regardless of gender or number.

So you can have:

• o cușcă maro = a brown cage
• un scaun maro = a brown chair
• două cuști maro = two brown cages

Not all Romanian adjectives behave this way, but many color words borrowed from other languages do.

cușcă is a feminine noun.

You can see that in the definite form:

• feminine singular indefinite: cușcă
• feminine singular definite: cușca

The ending -a in cușca is a strong clue that the noun is feminine singular and definite.

Yes. This is the most neutral and natural word order:

• Cușca de transport = subject
• este = verb
• maro = adjective/predicate

So the structure is basically:

Subject + is + adjective

That matches English fairly closely: The transport cage is brown.

A rough pronunciation is:

KOOSH-ka

Helpful details:

• cu here sounds roughly like koo
• ș is pronounced like English sh
• ca sounds like ka

So cușca ≈ KOOSH-ka

In this sentence, you see ș in cușca.

• ș = sh, like in shoe

You do not see ă in this exact sentence, but English speakers often ask about it because it is very common in Romanian:

• ă is a short central vowel, something like the a in sofa

These diacritics matter. For example, s and ș are different sounds.

Yes. That is a very common everyday version.

• este = more full/formal/neutral
• e = shorter, very common in speech

Both mean the same thing:

• Cușca de transport este maro.
• Cușca de transport e maro.

Both can make sense, but de transport is the more compact, noun-label style expression.

• cușcă de transport = transport cage / shipping cage / cage for transport
• cușcă pentru transport = cage for transport

de transport sounds more like the standard name of the object, while pentru transport can sound a bit more explanatory.