Editing Romanian language (section)

== Grammar ==
{{Main|Romanian grammar}}

Romanian nouns are characterized by gender (feminine, masculine, and neuter), and [[Declension|declined]] by number (singular and plural) and case ([[nominative case|nominative]]/[[accusative case|accusative]], [[dative case|dative]]/[[genitive case|genitive]] and [[vocative case|vocative]]). The articles, as well as most adjectives and pronouns, [[agreement (linguistics)|agree]] in gender, number and case with the noun they modify.

Romanian is the only major Romance language where [[Article (grammar)|definite articles]] are [[enclitic]]: that is, attached to the end of the noun (as in [[North Germanic languages|The Scandinavian Languages]], [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] and [[Albanian language|Albanian]]), instead of in front ([[proclitic]]).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Săvescu |first=Oana |date=2012 |title=When Syncretism Meets Word Order. On Clitic Order in Romanian |journal=Probus |language=en |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=233–256 |doi=10.1515/probus-2012-0010 |s2cid=194568315}}</ref> They were formed, as in other Romance languages, from the Latin demonstrative pronouns.

As in all Romance languages, [[Romanian verbs]] are highly inflected for person, number, tense, mood, and voice. The usual word order in sentences is [[subject–verb–object]] (SVO). Romanian has four verbal [[Grammatical conjugation|conjugations]] which further split into ten conjugation patterns. Romanian verbs are conjugated for five [[mood (linguistics)|moods]] ([[indicative mood|indicative]], [[conditional mood|conditional]]/[[optative mood|optative]], [[imperative mood|imperative]], [[subjunctive mood|subjunctive]], and [[presumptive mood|presumptive]]) and four non-finite forms ([[infinitive]], [[gerund]], [[supine]], and [[participle]]).