rrugën

Rrugën is the Albanian definite singular form of the noun rrugë, which means road or way. The base term rrugë refers to a path that provides a route for travel, whether in urban streets, rural paths, or major highways.

In Albanian, the definite article is attached to the noun, which yields different surface forms depending on grammatical function. Rrugën appears when the road is definite and functions as a direct object in a sentence or appears after certain prepositions. For example: Unë shoh rrugën (I see the road). In contrast, the nominative or subject form of the definite road is rruga (the road), as in Rruga është e gjatë (The road is long). The non-definite form is rrugë, used when speaking of a road in general rather than a specific one, as in Kam një rrugë të gabuar (I have a wrong road) in a general sense.

Common usage and phrasing often distinguish rrugën from rruga based on grammatical role rather than meaning. The word appears widely in everyday speech, road planning, and descriptions of infrastructure, and it also features in idiomatic expressions about travel, journeys, and routes.

Plural and related forms exist as part of the same noun system: rrugët can indicate the roads (in definite plural form) and rrugë can be used for roads in a non-specific sense. The term remains central to discussions of transportation, geography, and urban planning in Albanian contexts.