pluralului

Pluralului is the genitive/dative singular form of the Romanian masculine noun plural, meaning “the plural” in grammar. It is used to indicate possession or indirect relation to the plural, and it appears in phrases such as the sense, form, or rules of the plural. The base word plural is the term for the concept of more than one item in a language, and pluralului is the case-inflected form required when the noun is governed by a possessive, indirect object, or a prepositional relationship.

Etymology and morphology

Plural derives from the Latin pluralis through the normal Romanian development of grammatical nouns. The form pluralului specifically marks the genitive or dative relationship to other elements in a sentence, rather than serving as a standalone subject or object. As a masculine noun, pluralului occurs within syntactic constructions where possession, source, or related specification is expressed.

Usage

In practice, pluralului occurs in analytic or descriptive grammar, linguistic discussions, and dictionaries. Examples include phrases like sensul pluralului (the sense of the plural), regulile pluralului (the rules of the plural), and forma pluralului (the plural form). It is typically contrasted with pluralul (the plural, in a definite sense) and with other inflected forms when describing grammatical behavior.

Notes

- The term is most often encountered in linguistic or grammatical contexts rather than everyday speech.

- It functions as a tool for describing how Romanian marks possession or relation to the concept of “the plural.”

See also: plural, grammar, Romanian noun declension, genitive/dative case.