De când caută chilipiruri, Ana vine în fiecare sâmbătă.

Ever since she started looking for bargains, Ana has been coming every Saturday.

Breakdown of De când caută chilipiruri, Ana vine în fiecare sâmbătă.

• Ana: Ana
• a veni: to come
• în: in
• fiecare: every

Questions & Answers about De când caută chilipiruri, Ana vine în fiecare sâmbătă.

What is de când doing in this sentence?

It introduces a time clause. Here de când means since / ever since and gives the starting point for the situation in the main clause.

So De când caută chilipiruri is not the main statement by itself; it sets the time frame for Ana vine în fiecare sâmbătă.

Can de când mean because, like English since sometimes does?

No. In Romanian, de când is temporal, not causal.

If you want because, Romanian normally uses pentru că, fiindcă, or deoarece. English since can be ambiguous, but Romanian de când is much more clearly about time.

Why is there no pronoun before caută?

Romanian often leaves out subject pronouns because the verb form already shows the person and number.

Caută means he/she looks / is looking, so a separate word for she is not necessary. In this sentence, the natural reading is that the understood subject is Ana, even though her name appears in the main clause.

Why are caută and vine both in the present tense?