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Romanian cases: a guided learning path
A seven-stage learning path through the Romanian case system, from noun gender and number to the paired nominative-accusative and genitive-dative forms, possession, governing prepositions, and special uses like the vocative. Each stage reads case from articles, pronouns, and sentence role rather than five separate paradigms, so you learn to name a case relationship and choose the form it needs.
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Prepare the noun system
- Romanian noun gender: masculine, feminine, and neuterLearn how Romanian’s three noun genders work and use the singular and plural together to recognize them.CompletedA1
- The Romanian definite article: how to say “the”Romanian normally puts the definite article at the end of the noun: casă becomes casa, the house.CompletedA1
- How Romanian noun plurals workLearn the main Romanian plural endings and why each noun should be learned with its singular and plural form.CompletedA1
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Nominative and accusative in practice
- Core Romanian prepositionsLearn the main Romanian prepositions for place, source, association, purpose, absence, and limits, plus the noun forms that follow them.CompletedA1
- The direct-object marker peLearn when Romanian marks a direct object with pe and when a matching object clitic is also needed.CompletedA2
- Stressed direct and indirect object pronounsLearn Romanian's full object-pronoun forms, including pe mine and mie, and use them for clear contrast and emphasis.CompletedA2
Form the genitive and dative
- Genitive and dative noun formsLearn the shared Romanian noun forms for possession and recipients, including the key article changes.CompletedB1
- The genitive article al, a, ai, and aleLearn how al, a, ai, and ale agree with the possessed noun and when Romanian uses them in a genitive phrase.CompletedB1
- Unstressed indirect object pronounsLearn Romanian dative clitics, their forms, their position with different verb forms, and their most useful variants.CompletedB1
Express possession
- Possessive adjectives and pronounsLearn how Romanian possessive forms agree with the thing possessed and when they use al, a, ai, or ale.CompletedA2
- Dative possessive constructionsLearn how Romanian dative clitics can identify the possessor of a definite noun, especially in verb-centered everyday sentences.CompletedB2
Choose a case after a preposition
- Prepositions that take the accusativeLearn which common Romanian prepositions select the accusative and how noun articles, pronouns, and the two uses of pe behave after them.CompletedB1
- La or în for location?Learn when Romanian uses la or în for places, destinations, institutions, settlements, countries, and interiors.CompletedA2
- Din, de la, and de for originLearn how Romanian distinguishes origin from inside a place, from a person or source point, and from common source adverbs.CompletedA2
- Prepositions that take the genitiveLearn a bounded set of Romanian genitive-taking prepositions and locutions, with noun and pronoun forms, contrasts, variants, and common traps.CompletedB2
- Prepositions that take the dativeLearn the small Romanian set that governs the dative, how the forms look with nouns and pronouns, and when each choice fits.CompletedB2
- Compound prepositions and prepositional phrasesLearn how Romanian multiword prepositions and prepositional locutions are built, what case they govern, and how to avoid translating them word for word.CompletedB2
Special uses
- The Romanian vocativeLearn how Romanian marks direct address, when the noun takes a special form, and which forms are register-sensitive.CompletedB1
- Articles with names and proper nounsLearn when Romanian personal and place names stay bare, take Mariei or lui, or appear with an attached definite article.CompletedB1
- Fixed verb–preposition combinationsLearn high-frequency Romanian verb frames as lexical units, choose the right preposition, and use full pronouns after them.CompletedB1