grupurilor

Grupurilor is the genitive/dative plural form of the Romanian noun grup, meaning the groups (in grammatical constructions that indicate possession, origin, or direction toward multiple groups). It is used to express relations such as “the members of the groups” or “the rights of the groups.” The base word grup refers to a unit composed of people or objects that function together, and it has distinct senses in social science contexts and in mathematics.

In Romanian, the nominative/accusative plural is grupuri (the groups). The genitive/dative plural form grupurilor is used after words that govern a genitive or dative complement, or in phrases indicating possession or affiliation. Examples: Membrii grupurilor (the members of the groups), drepturile grupurilor (the rights of the groups).

Across disciplines, grupuri can refer to:

- Social and organizational groups: groups defined by membership, purpose, or shared goals; studies often address dynamics such as cohesion, leadership, roles, and intergroup relations.

- Mathematics: in everyday language, grupuri refers to algebraic groups; a group is a set with a binary operation satisfying closure, associativity, identity, and invertibility; examples include cyclic groups or abelian groups (grupuri abeliene).

Etimology traces grup to European languages, with influence from French groupe or German Gruppe, adapted into Romanian as grup and its plural grupuri, and further inflected forms like grupurilor.

Grupurilor thus functions as a key inflected form in Romanian grammar, enabling clear expression of possession or relation to multiple groups, while the base noun grup and its plural grupuri cover the broader semantic field of grouping in social and mathematical contexts.