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Cartea este foarte interesantă.

Cartea este foarte interesantă.
The book is very interesting.
From Lesson 10:Adjectives and agreement·Romanian

Questions & Answers about Cartea este foarte interesantă.

Why does the adjective end in -ă here (interesantă)?
In Romanian, adjectives must match the noun's gender and number. Since carte (book) is a feminine singular noun, the adjective takes the feminine singular ending -ă. If we were talking about a masculine noun, it would stay in its base form: interesant.
If the word for book is carte, why is it written as cartea here?
Romanian attaches the word for "the" (the definite article) to the end of the noun instead of putting a separate word in front of it. For feminine nouns that end in -e like carte, adding the article makes it end in -ea, giving us cartea (the book).
Does the word for "very" (foarte) need to change its ending to match the feminine noun too?
No, foarte is an adverb (a word that describes an adjective), and adverbs never change their form. You will always use foarte exactly like this, no matter if the noun is masculine, feminine, singular, or plural.
I learned that Romanian adjectives go right after the noun. Why is there a verb in between them here?
The rule about placing the adjective directly after the noun applies to descriptive phrases, like "the interesting book" (cartea interesantă). But this is a full sentence linking the noun to a description. Just like in English, when you use the verb este (is), the adjective comes after the verb.

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