Specialistului

Specialistului is the genitive/dative singular form of the Romanian noun specialist, meaning the specialist, and is used to indicate possession or an indirect object in contexts where the noun is definite. It corresponds to phrases such as of the specialist or to/for the specialist, depending on the sentence structure. The form appears when a base noun is in a possessive or indirect role and the noun that governs it is definite.

Etymology and morphology: The noun specialist is a masculine loanword formed with the suffix -ist, borrowed into Romanian from sources such as French or English. The definite article -ul attaches to the noun stem in the nominative to yield specialistul (the specialist). The genitive/dative singular adds the suffix -ului, giving specialistului. This form is used in constructions where the possessed or indirect noun is introduced by the construction a + definite article or by a preposition requiring a genitive/dative case.

Usage: The form specialistului is common in formal and written Romanian. It appears in noun-noun possessive phrases (cartea specialistului — the specialist’s book) and in prepositional phrases (la propunerea specialistului — at the proposal of the specialist; făcut după recomandarea specialistului — done after the recommendation of the specialist). It also occurs in expressions of attribution or indirect objects, often with prepositions that govern the genitive.

See also: Romanian grammar, genitive and dative constructions, definite article in Romanian, Romanian noun morphology.