Femeia împachetează ceainicul.

Because femeia means the woman, while femeie means a woman / woman.

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

• femeie = woman
• femeia = the woman

So in this sentence, femeia is the subject and means the woman.

For the same reason: ceainicul means the teapot, while ceainic means a teapot / teapot.

• ceainic = teapot
• ceainicul = the teapot

The ending -ul is a common definite article ending for masculine and neuter nouns in the singular.

Because the sentence means The woman packs the teapot, so both the subject and the object are definite.

Romanian marks definiteness directly on the noun:

• femeia = the woman
• ceainicul = the teapot

This is completely normal in Romanian. If the meaning were less specific, you might see:

• O femeie împachetează un ceainic. = A woman is packing a teapot.

Împachetează is the 3rd person singular present tense of the verb a împacheta = to pack / to wrap.

Here it agrees with femeia = she / the woman.

So:

• a împacheta = to pack
• ea împachetează = she packs / she is packing

In Romanian, the present tense can often translate both English simple present and present continuous, depending on context.

It can mean either one.

In many contexts, Romanian present tense covers both:

• she packs
• she is packing

So Femeia împachetează ceainicul can naturally correspond to The woman packs the teapot or The woman is packing the teapot, depending on the situation.

Because Romanian often leaves out subject pronouns when the verb ending already shows the person.

Here, împachetează already tells you the subject is he/she/it in the singular. Since the noun femeia is present, there is no need for ea (she).

Romanian commonly does this:

• Ea împachetează ceainicul. = She is packing the teapot.
• Femeia împachetează ceainicul. = The woman is packing the teapot.

The second version is perfectly natural.

Because pe is usually used with specific direct objects that are people (or sometimes animals/personified beings), not ordinary inanimate things.

Since ceainicul is an inanimate object, Romanian normally says:

• Femeia împachetează ceainicul.

But with a person, you often get pe:

• Femeia îl vede pe băiat. = The woman sees the boy.

So no pe is needed here.

Not in a way you can see here.

In Romanian, the nominative and accusative forms are often the same for nouns. Since ceainicul is the direct object, it is in the accusative, but its form looks the same as the nominative.

So in this sentence:

• femeia = subject
• ceainicul = direct object

You understand their roles mainly from word order and meaning.

The basic order here is Subject + Verb + Object, which is the most neutral and common order:

• Femeia împachetează ceainicul.

Romanian word order is somewhat flexible, though, especially for emphasis. For example:

• Ceainicul îl împachetează femeia.
  This is much more marked and would emphasize the teapot.

For learners, the normal pattern to remember is:

• Subject + Verb + Object

A rough English-friendly guide is:

eem-pa-keh-TEA-zuh

A few useful notes:

• î is a Romanian vowel with no exact English equivalent; it is a central sound, somewhat like a tight, muted vowel.
• ch before e is pronounced like k, so che sounds like ke.
• ea in -tează is pronounced like a glide, roughly ya / ea, depending on the speaker.
• ă at the end is the short central vowel often written roughly as uh.

You do not need perfect pronunciation immediately; the important thing is recognizing the word as the present tense of a împacheta.

A rough guide is:

fe-MEY-a

The ending -ia is pronounced as two vowels together, not as a single English-style ending. So it is not fe-may-ja, but closer to fe-MEY-a.

Ceainic is a neuter noun.

In Romanian, neuter nouns behave like:

• masculine in the singular
• feminine in the plural

That is why the singular definite form is:

• ceainicul = the teapot

Its plural is:

• ceainice = teapots
• ceainicele = the teapots

This masculine-like singular ending is normal for neuter nouns.

It usually means to pack or to wrap.

Depending on context, Femeia împachetează ceainicul could suggest:

• she is putting the teapot into a package,
• she is wrapping it,
• she is packing it up for moving or shipping.

So a împacheta is a practical, everyday verb for packing or wrapping something.