Posibilitilor

Posibilităților is the genitive/dative plural form of the Romanian noun posibilitate, meaning “of the possibilities” or “to/for the possibilities.” Posibilitate refers to the potential or options that could occur or be realized. The standard plural nominative is posibilități, while the genitive/dative plural is posibilităților.

Etymology and linguistics: posibilitate derives from the Latin possibilitas, through the Romance language tradition, with the Romanian abstract noun suffix "-itate." The word is common in formal writing, research, philosophy, and policy discussions, where precise reference to a set of options is required.

Form and usage: Possibilităților is used after prepositions or verbs that govern the genitive or dative case, and in phrases describing particular groups of options. In everyday Romanian, the nominative plural posibilități is more frequent when the word functions as the subject or a simple object, while posibilităților appears when the expression is a complement following a governing word, as in “posibilităților de finanțare” (the funding possibilities) or “din posibilităților disponibile” (from the available possibilities).

Diacritics and variants: In properly diacritic Romanian, the form is posibilităților. In unaccented text, it may appear as posibilitatilor or, less commonly, posibilitilor, depending on transcription conventions.

See also: posibilitate, posibilități, sintagme nominale cu -itate, sintagme prepoziționale cu de/din/cu.