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Romanian has two grammatical numbers: singular and plural.Morphologically, the plural form is built by adding specific endings to the singular form. For example, nominative nouns without the definite article form the plural by adding one of the endings -i, -uri, -e, or -le.
Rules other than phonetic can be used when the meaning of the noun is known or at least its semantic group is recognized. In this category obvious examples are proper names of people, or nouns designating nationality, profession, etc. Nouns referring to animals and birds are always specific to their biological gender, and often occur in pairs the same way as we have cow and bull in English.
Ending Examples Notes I –a: a da (to give) a crea (to create) a veghea (to ward) Verbs ending in hiatus ea are included here, as well as verbs ending in -chea and -ghea, due to their first conjugation-like behavior II –ea: a putea (to be able to, can) a cădea (to fall) a vedea (to see) only when ea is a diphthong (also see above) III –e ...
The -le ending is used for all masculine singular nouns ending in -e, e.g. fråtele (the brother), sorele (the sun), cărele (the dog). Some examples of masculine nouns showing case endings, nominative=accusative, genitive=dative. The vocative case is not shown as this normally corresponds with the nominative. fiľ (son), fiľi (pl.)
The ending of words in this sub-class is -o with masculines, -i with feminines, with the latter ending triggering palatalisation of preceding d, t, n, l to ď, ť, ň, ľ. [24] Examples: [24] masculine o čhavo - the son; o cikno - the little; o amaro - our (m.) feminine e rakľi - non-romani girl; e cikňi - small (note the change n > ň) e ...
Romanian grammar (5 P) H. ... Romanian words and phrases (2 C, 24 P) Pages in category "Romanian language" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
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For other words it would underlie a relationship between a Romanian word and a Latin word containing letter e, where the Romanian word would use é, such as gréle (today spelled grele) derived from Latin word grevis. Lastly, this letter was used to accommodate the sound that corresponds to today's Romanian diphthong ia, as in the word ér (iar ...