Masculine: om ('man, human being'), bou ('ox'), copac ('tree').As there are many exceptions to these rules, each noun must be learned together with its gender.

In the plural, the ending -i corresponds generally to masculine nouns, whereas feminine and neuter nouns often end in -e. Nouns which in their dictionary form ( singular, nominative, with no article) end in a consonant or the vowel/ semivowel -u are mostly masculine or neuter if they end in -Дѓ or -a they are usually feminine. The neuter behaves like the masculine in the singular and the feminine in the plural, unlike the neuter in Latin which had distinct forms. Romanian nouns are categorized into three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. 10.3 Clauses introduced by coordinating conjunctions.4.6 Relative and interrogative pronouns.4.4.2 Pronouns of differentiation and identity.4.4.1 Pronouns of proximity and remoteness.are revised periodically to include new tendencies in the language.

Many modern writings on Romanian grammar, in particular, most of those published by the Romanian Academy ( Academia RomГўnДѓ), are prescriptive the rules regarding plural formation, verb conjugation, word spelling and meanings, etc. Samuil Micu and Gheorghe Иincai, published in 1780. The first Romanian grammar was Elementa linguae daco-romanae sive valachicae by Romanian is attested from the 16th century. Another might be the retention of the neuter gender in nouns, although in synchronic terms, Romanian neuter nouns can also be analysed as 'ambigeneric', that is as being masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural (see below) and even in diachronic terms certain linguists have argued that this pattern, as well as that of case differentiation, was in a sense 're-invented' rather than a 'direct' continuation of the Latin neuter. Nevertheless, declensions have been reduced to only three forms (nominative/accusative, genitive/dative, and vocative) from the original six or seven. One Latin element that has survived in Romanian while having disappeared from other Romance languages is the morphological case differentiation in nouns. This could be explained by a host of arguments such as: relative isolation in the Balkans, possible pre-existence of identical grammatical structures in its substratum (as opposed to the substrata over which the other Romance languages developed), and existence of similar elements in the neighboring languages. However, Romanian has preserved certain features of Latin grammar that have been lost elsewhere. the Daco-Romanian language within Balkan Romance) shares largely the same grammar and most of the vocabulary and phonological processes with the other three surviving varieties of Balkan Romance, namely Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian.ДЄs a Romance language, Romanian shares many characteristics with its more distant relatives: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, etc.

Inflectional endings