transportului

Transportului is a Romanian grammatical form of the noun transport. The base noun transport refers to the act, system, or means of moving people or goods from one place to another, or to a mode of conveyance such as road, rail, air, or maritime transport. The definite singular form of transport is transportul, meaning “the transport.” The form transportului represents the genitive or dative singular and is used when the noun is in a genitive or dative relation, often after prepositions or in noun phrases that express possession, relationship, or specification.

Morphology and usage

In Romanian, nouns accumulate meaning through determiner and case-like relations rather than a full case system. The genitive/dative singular transportului is formed from the stem transport- plus the ending -ului, yielding the sense “of the transport” or “to the transport” depending on context. It appears in combinations with adjectives or prepositions to designate a specific transport system or a component of transport. For example, phrases such as costul transportului (the cost of the transport), documentele transportului (the transport documents), or datorită transportului public (thanks to public transport) illustrate its typical functions in attributive and prepositional constructions. It is also common in compound expressions naming a particular type of transport, such as transportului aerian (air transport) or transportului feroviar (rail transport), where the form marks a definite reference.

Notes

The form is not used in isolation as a standalone noun; it is a case-derived variant of transport. For general information about Romanian nouns, including definiteness and prepositional usage, see Romanian grammar.

See also

Transport (Romanian noun), Romanian grammar, Genitive and Dative cases in Romanian.