argumentului

Argumentului is the genitive and dative singular form of the Romanian noun argumentul (the argument). The noun refers to a reason or statement offered in support of a conclusion, or more generally to a line of reasoning. The form argumentului marks possession or an indirect object in sentences where the noun argumentul is governed by a possessive or related construction; it corresponds to “of the argument” or “to the argument” in English, depending on the syntactic role.

In Romanian, argumentul is masculine, singular, and definite. The nominative form is argumentul, while the genitive/dative singular is argumentului. The plural forms are argumentele (the arguments) and argumentelor (of the arguments), the latter also serving as the dative/genitive plural in contexts requiring a case-marked form.

Usage is common in academic, legal, and rhetorical contexts, as well as in everyday discourse when expressing possession or relation to a specific argument. Examples include validitatea argumentului (the validity of the argument), rezultatul argumentului (the result of the argument), and autorul argumentului (the author of the argument).

Etymology traces to Latin argumentum, with Romanian maintaining the core meaning of a reason or proposition used to support a claim. Beyond its grammatical function, argumentul and its inflected forms appear in phrases that discuss the strength, relevance, or consequences of a given argument within a discourse.