3.2.2. Romanian Noun

3.2.2.1. Notes

• Gender:
  In Romanian the declension of a neuter noun always follows in singular a masculine paradigm and in plural a feminine one. Specific implementations could take advantage of this rule and by organizing the paradigmatic space in partial paradigms (masc-sing, masc-pl, fem-sing, fem-pl) to get rid of neuter value for the gender attribute.
• Case:
  There are five functional cases in Romanian (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and vocative) but they are expressed by at most three syncretic forms for each number: 1. nominative-accusative; 2. genitive-dative; 3. vocative. The ambiguity of a syncretic case form may be solved at the syntactic level. At the word level, the distinction between the three syncretic forms is possible only for the definite nouns. Masculine indefinite nouns are not differentiated by case (except, sometimes for vocative. The feminine indefinite nouns have different forms in singular for nominative-accusative, genitive-dative and vocative, but the genitive-dative singular forms are also indistinguishable from the plural forms:
  fată (nominative-accusative, vocative singular, indefinite)
  fato (vocative singular, indefinite)
  fete (genitive-dative singular, nominative-accusative,
  genitive-dative, vocative plural, indefinite)
  băiat(nominative-accusative, genitive-dative, vocative
  singular, indefinite)
  băiete (vocative singular, indefinite)
  băieţi (nominative-accusative, genitive-dative, vocative,
  plural, indefinite)
• Definiteness:
  In Romanian, nouns can be marked for definiteness with the enclitic definite article.
• Clitic:
  See discussion on Verb clitics.