Njerëzve

Njerëzve is a form in the Albanian language that corresponds to the noun njeri/njerëz, meaning person or people. It is the plural dative or indirect-object form of the word and is used to indicate the recipient or beneficiary of an action, roughly translating to “to the people” or “for the people” in English. In standard Albanian, the indefinite plural is njerëz, the definite plural is njerëzit, and njerëzve appears in contexts that require a plural dative or genitive, often after prepositions or verbs that take an indirect object.

The form is common in both written and spoken Albanian, appearing in phrases where the action is directed toward people in general or toward a group of people. For example, ndihmojë njerëzve means “to help the people,” and paratë do të shpërndahen për njerëzve në nevojë means “the money will be distributed to the people in need.” The word can also occur in clauses with prepositions such as për or nga, depending on the syntactic role of the noun in the sentence.

Njerëzve should be distinguished from njerëzit, which is the definite plural meaning “the people.” While njerëzve refers to people in a dative or genitive sense, njerëzit serves as the subject or direct object in a sentence when the group is specifically identified. The use of njerëzve is thus primarily determined by the grammatical function of the noun within the clause.