materialului

Materialului is the genitive and dative singular form of the Romanian masculine noun material, which means material, substance, or matter. The base noun material is widely used in technical, scientific, and everyday language to refer to substances used for building, manufacturing, or describing matter in general. In Romanian, the definite article is suffixed to the noun, so the nominative form is materialul, while materialului marks the genitive or dative with the definite article.

The word material has Latin roots, from materialis, and entered Romanian through historical contact with Romance languages, including French matériel. Its basic meaning centers on substance or matter used to produce, construct, or study objects and processes. The form materialului is most common in phrases that indicate possession or indirect objects.

Usage and morphology: materialul denotes “the material” in the nominative. In phrases like calitatea materialului (the quality of the material) or prețul materialului (the price of the material), materialului expresses “of the material” or “to/for the material.” In plural, the forms shift to materialele (the materials) and materialelor (of the materials). The term appears across domains such as construction, engineering, manufacturing, and education (material didactic, materialele didactice).

See also: material (Romanian), Romanian grammar, definite article in Romanian, genitive.