Sunetului

Sunetului is the genitive/dative singular form of the Romanian noun sunet, which means sound or tone. It is used to express possession or association and after prepositions that govern the genitive or dative case. Examples include volumul sunetului (the volume of the sound) and calitatea sunetului (the quality of the sound).

Morphology in standard Romanian forms sunet as the base noun. Singular: nominative/accusative sunet (definite form sunetul); genitive/dative sunetului. Plural: nominative/accusative sunete (definite plural sunetele); genitive/dative sunetelor. The form sunetului thus marks the singular genitive/dative, while sunetelor marks the plural genitive/dative.

Etymology traces sunet back to Latin sonus, meaning sound, with subsequent development in Romanian to the noun sunet and its inflected forms, including sunetului.

Usage and context: sunetului appears in formal and everyday language wherever a relationship to the sound itself is described, such as technical descriptions in acoustics or music, literary analyses, and general discourse. It is a typical example of Romanian noun declension, illustrating how genitive and dative relations are expressed in combination with the definite article in the language.