Cazurilor

Cazurilor is the genitive plural form of the Romanian noun caz, which can refer to an occurrence or instance, a particular situation, a grammatical case, or a legal, medical, or statistical case. The form cazurilor is used when the noun is in the genitive or dative case in plural, typically after numerals, adjectives, or verbs that govern the genitive/dative.

In Romanian, the noun caz has several senses, including a general instance or event (a case or example), and a grammatical category (grammatical case). The plural forms differ by case: nominative/accusative is cazuri, while genitive/dative plural is cazurilor. This distinction matters for agreement and for expressing relationships such as possession or specification, as in phrases like numărul cazurilor (the number of cases) or studiul cazurilor clinice (the study of clinical cases).

Cazuri appear across many fields. In medicine, one speaks of cazuri de boală (cases of disease); in law, cazuri judiciare (legal cases); in linguistics and grammar, cazuri gramaticale (grammatical cases). The genitive plural cazurilor often appears after words that require a genitive complement, such as numărul, înima cazurilor sau studiul cazurilor, where the noun following it indicates what is being counted or analyzed.

See also: caz, grammar of Romanian cases, linguistic terminology for case systems.