palëve

Palëve is the genitive plural form of the Albanian noun palë, which means party, side, or participant in a legal, contractual, or formal context. In Albanian, palë is used to denote an actor in a relation or agreement, while palët refers to the parties as subjects. The genitive plural palëve is used to express possession, relation, or involvement of the parties, roughly translating to “of the parties” or “to the parties” in English depending on the construction.

In legal and formal language, palëve appears in phrases that indicate relation to the parties in a dispute, contract, treaty, or negotiation. Common usages include expressions such as interesat e palëve (the interests of the parties), detyrimet ndaj palëve (the obligations toward the parties), and marrëveshja midis palëve (the agreement between the parties). The form is typically used after prepositions or within possessive constructions, rather than as a standalone subject.

Usage note: palët is the more frequent form when referring to the parties as active participants (the parties, as entities). palëve is reserved for contexts where the emphasis is on possession, relation, or interaction involving the parties, especially in legal, diplomatic, or formal discourse.

See also: palë (the base noun meaning party/side), grammatical forms in Albanian, legal Albanian terminology.

Examples:

- Interesat e palëve duhet të mbrohen. (The interests of the parties must be protected.)

- Detyrimet ndaj palëve janë të qarta. (The obligations toward the parties are clear.)

- Marrëveshja midis palëve u ratifikua. (The agreement between the parties was ratified.)