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pmânturilor

pământurilor is the genitive plural form of the Romanian noun pământ, which means earth, soil, or land. The word pământ can refer to the soil or ground, a country or piece of territory, or Earth as a planet in broader contexts. The genitive plural pământurilor is used to express “of the lands/earths” or “belonging to the lands,” and it commonly appears in geographic, historical, or legal texts as well as in descriptive prose.

In Romanian, the nominative/accusative plural form of the noun is pământuri, while pământurilor is the genitive/dative

Usage and sense: pământurilor is typically used after a noun that governs a genitive relationship, or in

See also: pământ, pământuri, teren, sol, geografie. This article focuses on the grammatical form and its function

plural.
This
distinction
is
important
for
proper
syntax:
pământului,
pământului
would
be
the
singular
genitive/dative,
and
pământurilor
marks
possession
or
relation
to
multiple
lands
or
parcels
of
soil.
The
word
is
written
with
diacritics
in
standard
Romanian
orthography.
constructions
with
prepositions
or
possessive
phrases.
Examples
include
harta
pământurilor
din
regiune
(the
map
of
the
lands
of
the
region)
and
resursele
pământurilor
fertile
(the
resources
of
the
fertile
lands).
The
term
can
also
appear
in
historical
or
geographic
discourse
to
refer
collectively
to
territories
or
soils
associated
with
a
group,
region,
or
period.
in
linking
land-related
concepts
to
other
nouns
within
Romanian
syntax.