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Ei vin din gară acum.

Ei vin din gară acum.
They come from the train station now.
From Lesson 20:Accusative prepositions (în, la, pe, din, cu)·Romanian

Questions & Answers about Ei vin din gară acum.

Why do we use din here instead of de la for "from"?
din specifically means "out of" the inside of a place. By saying din gară, we mean they are coming from inside the train station building. If you used de la gară, it would mean they are coming from the general area or direction of the station.
The English translation says "from THE train station", but gară doesn't have the definite article "-a" at the end. Why?
In Romanian, when a noun comes right after most simple prepositions (like din, în, la, pe), we drop the definite article. So we use the basic form gară instead of gara, even though we still translate it as "the train station" in English.
What verb does vin come from?
It comes from the verb a veni (to come). It is slightly irregular. For "they come", the form is ei vin. Notice it is the exact same form as "I come" (eu vin), which is a common pattern for Romanian verbs ending in -i.
If a group of women is coming from the station, would we still use ei?
No. ei is the pronoun for "they" when the group is all male or a mix of men and women. If it were a group of only women, you would use the feminine "they", which is ele. The rest of the sentence would stay exactly the same: Ele vin din gară acum.

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