Romanian Language Grammar

Romanian is an inflected language comparable to other Romance languages, still with a quite difficult grammar. It has retained the cases of Latin, nominative, acusative, dative, genitive and vocative. The nouns have three genders: masculine (un băiat, doi băieţi), feminine (o fată, două fete) and neutral (un tren, două trenuri).

The articles, adjectives, pronouns agree in gender, number and case with the noun they refer to. The Romanian verb has four groups of verbs:

• ending in A (a dansa, a cânta)
• ending in E (a cere, a crede)
• ending in EA (a vedea, a cădea)
• ending in I, Î (a citi, a urî)

and four moods (indicative, conditional, subjonctive and imperative).

The word order is subject - predicate - object but this order can be easily changed. Concerning the interrogative, for example, the word order can be subject - predicate - object with a specific intonation or predicate - subject - object.