verbului

Verbului is the genitive/dative singular form of the Romanian noun verb, which designates a word class that expresses actions, processes, or states. In practice, verbului occurs in phrases that indicate possession or indirect relation to the verb, such as when referring to the form or feature of a verb. For example, conjugarea verbului means “the conjugation of the verb,” and forma verbului means “the form of the verb.” The form verbului is thus a grammatical tool rather than a separate lexical item.

Morphology and usage are typical of Romanian masculine nouns. The base noun is verb, with the definite singular verbul (the verb) and the genitive/dative singular verbului (of/to the verb). Plural forms exist as verbe (the verbs) and verbele (the verbs, definite), while the genitive/dative plural is verbelor. In ordinary grammar, verbului appears in constructions that discuss or specify aspects of a verb, its tense, mood, or lexical form, without creating a new word meaning beyond “the verb’s …” or “to/for the verb …”.

Etymology and meaning: verbului derives from Latin verbum, the Latin root for the Romanian word verb. As a concept, a verb denotes a word class responsible for actions, occurrences, and states, and Romanian uses a rich system of inflection to express person, number, tense, mood, voice, and other grammatical relations.

See also: Romanian grammar, noun declension, parts of speech, Latin etymology.