Learn Romanian: Femeia este foarte frumoasă. - The woman is very beautiful.

In Romanian, adjectives must match the noun they describe in gender (masculine, feminine, or neuter) and number (singular or plural). Since femeia (the woman) is feminine and singular, the adjective changes its ending to the feminine singular form, frumoasă.

The lesson says adjectives usually go after the noun. Why does foarte come before frumoasă?

Foarte (very) is an adverb, not an adjective. Its job here is to make the adjective stronger. Just like in English, words that measure intensity go right before the adjective they describe, creating the phrase foarte frumoasă (very beautiful).

Why is the word for woman femeia here, instead of just femeie?

Femeie simply means a woman, but this sentence is about a specific woman: The woman. In Romanian, the word for the (the definite article) attaches to the very end of the noun. For this feminine noun, the ending changes to add an -a, making it femeia.

Is the adjective frumoasă placed at the end because of the Romanian rule that adjectives go after nouns?

Not exactly! In this sentence, frumoasă comes after the verb este (is) because it describes the subject across the verb, exactly like in English (The woman is beautiful). The rule about putting adjectives after nouns applies when they are grouped directly together, like if you wanted to say the beautiful woman (femeia frumoasă).