qëndrës

Qëndrës is a term found in Albanian grammar as a morphological inflection related to the noun qendër, which means center. In standard Albanian, the indefinite form for center is qendër, and the genitive singular used to express possession or association is qendrës. The spelling qëndrës is less common in formal writing and may appear in some dialectal transcriptions or typographic variants, but the widely accepted standard genitive singular is qendrës.

In use, qendrës appears in phrases that indicate possession or relation to a center. For example, rruga e qendrës means the center’s street or the street of the center, while pushteti i qendrës refers to the center’s authority. These constructions illustrate how the genitive form links a noun to a central or central-area concept within a sentence, typically accompanied by the preposition e or i to mark the genitive relationship.

Notes on form and references: qendër is the headword in dictionaries; qendrës is the genitive singular form used in ordinary Albanian writing. The appearance of qëndrës is generally regarded as a nonstandard or dialectal variant rather than a separate lexical entry. Standard Albanian orthography favors qendrës for the genitive singular of qendër.

See also: qendra, qendër.