"Ele mănâncă cina."

Translation: They eat the dinner.

[Sierra451105]

Cina is similar to Spanish "Cena"

[dj___]

It actually sounds kinda alike as “dinner”, I’m sure it’s from the same root…

[spasqu]

Definitely not.
"Dinner" comes from Latin "disjejunare", "to break fast" (yes, 'to have dinner' means etymologically 'to have breakfast'), while cină (Rom)/cena (Spa & Ita) come from Latin "cena", which means (unsurprisingly) "dinner/supper".

[gluadys]

Romanian often seems to use the definite article where English omits it. Could this be translated as "They eat dinner" ? In English this would be correct for a general statement e.g. "They usually eat dinner at 6." "the dinner" of course would refer to a particular dinner.

[MrtonPolgr]

And the other way around too, actually. "Copilul este la masă."

[ngel41311]

Could it be translated as 'they are having dinner'?

[Hector290697]

que Sorry. Had a long day at work.

[dino_-_-_]

Im wondering if asked to translate it from english I could use the phrase masa de seară. My parents are Romanian and they've only used that phrase in my family, but I dont know if it will mark me as wrong.