Learn Romanian: Profesorul citește povestea în camera mică. - The teacher reads the story in the small room.

The verb is a citi (to read). It uses the -esc pattern you are learning, but the suffix changes depending on who is acting. For "I", it is citesc (I read). For "he/she/it" (like the teacher here), the suffix changes to -ește, making it citește.

Where is the word for "the" in povestea?

Just like with profesorul (the teacher), the word for "the" attaches to the end of the noun in Romanian. The base word is poveste (story). For feminine nouns ending in -e, we add -a to mean "the", giving us povestea.

I learned we drop the attached "the" after prepositions like în. Why is it camera and not cameră here?

Great memory! Normally, "in the room" is simply în cameră, without the definite article. However, there is a special rule: if the noun is followed by a describing word (like the adjective mică), it gets its article back. So it must be în camera mică.

Why is it mică instead of mic?

Adjectives must match the gender of the noun they describe. Because cameră (room) is a feminine noun, we use the feminine form of the adjective, mică, instead of the masculine form, mic.