actorului

Actorului is the Romanian genitive/dative singular form of the masculine noun actor when the noun is in its definite form (actorul). It is used to express possession, as in the actor’s name, or to indicate an indirect object in a sentence.

In Romanian, masculine nouns form their definite singular by adding a suffix to the base stem; the genitive/dative singular then takes the -ului ending, yielding actorului from actorul. The corresponding forms include actorul (the actor), actorii (the actors, plural nominative), and actorilor (the actors’ or to/from the actors, genitive plural). These inflections govern how possession and indirect objects are expressed in context.

Common usages include phrases that denote possession, such as cartea actorului (the actor’s book), or spatial/ relational expressions like intrarea în casa actorului (the entrance to the actor’s house). The form appears specifically in contexts where the possessed noun is definite or when the noun stands with a determiner in the genitive or dative.

Etymology: actor derives from Latin actor, with the Romanian definite article suffix -ul forming actorul. The genitive/dative singular actorului communicates ownership or an indirect relation to the actor. Related Romanian forms enable expressing quantities, possession, and relationships with nouns across singular and plural paradigms.