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This article on Romanian verbs is related to the Romanian grammar and belongs to a series of articles on the Romanian language. Image File history File links Clock-green. ... This article is actively undergoing a major edit. ... Romanian (limba română IPA ) is the fifth of the Romance languages in terms of number of speakers. ...

Unlike English but similar to other Indo-European languages, verbs in Romanian are highly inflective. They conjugate according to mood, tense, voice, person and number. Aspect is not an independent feature in Romanian verbs. Also, gender is only distinct in adjective-like forms of the verb. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Indo-European languages include some 443 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects, including most of the major language families of Europe, as well as many languages of Southwest and South Asia, which belong to a single superfamily. ... A verb is a part of speech that usually denotes action (bring, read), occurrence (to decompose (itself), to glitter), or a state of being (exist, live, soak, stand). Depending on the language, a verb may vary in form according to many factors, possibly including its tense, aspect, mood and voice. ... In linguistics, conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (regular alteration according to rules of grammar). ... In linguistics, many grammars have the concept of grammatical mood, which describes the relationship of a verb with reality and intent. ... Grammatical tense is a way languages express the time at which an event described by a sentence occurs. ... In grammar, voice is the relationship between the action or state expressed by a verb, and its arguments (subject, object, etc. ... Third person redirects here, but can also mean: Third Person, a New York City improvising trio A perspective (storytelling) Grammatical person, in linguistics, is deictic reference to the participant role of a referent, such as the speaker, the addressee, and others. ... Number, in linguistics, is a grammatical category used to express the quantity of objects referred to by a noun. ... In linguistics, grammatical aspect is a property of a verb that defines the nature of temporal flow (or lack thereof) in the described event or state. ... In linguistics, noun classes, also called grammatical gender is a type of inflection. ... An adjective is a part of speech which modifies a noun, usually describing it or making its meaning more specific. ...

Verb paradigm

There are nine moods a verb can be be put into, with five of them being personal — having a different form for each person — and four non-personal. As an example, the tables below show the verb a face (to do) at all moods, tenses, persons and numbers. Only positive forms in the active voice are given. The corresponding personal pronouns are not included; unlike English verbs, Romanian verbs generally have different forms for each person and number, so that pronouns are most often dropped or only used for emphasis. The English equivalents in the tables (one for each mood and tense) are only an approximative indication of the meaning. In linguistics, many grammars have the concept of grammatical mood, which describes the relationship of a verb with reality and intent. ... Third person redirects here, but can also mean: Third Person, a New York City improvising trio A perspective (storytelling) Grammatical person, in linguistics, is deictic reference to the participant role of a referent, such as the speaker, the addressee, and others. ... In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a word that usually takes the place of a noun or noun phrase that was previously mentioned (such as she, it) or that refers to something or someone (I, me, you). Pronouns are often one of the basic parts of speech of the...

Verbs in the past participle usually behave like adjectives, and thus must agree in number, gender, and case with the noun they determine. An adjective is a part of speech which modifies a noun, usually describing it or making its meaning more specific. ...

Conjugation groups

Romanian verbs are categorized into four large conjugation groups depending on the ending in the infinitive mood.

Most verbs fall in the first conjugation group with another large number ending in –i (fourth group). Hiatus in linguistics is the separate pronunciation of two adjacent vowels, sometimes with an intervening glottal stop. ... In phonetics, a diphthong (Greek δίφθογγος, diphthongos, literally with two sounds) is a vowel combination in a single syllable involving a quick but smooth movement from one vowel to another, often interpreted by listeners as a single vowel sound or phoneme. ...

This classification only partially helps in identifying the correct conjugation pattern; each group is further split into smaller classes depending on the actual morphological processes that occur. For example, verbs a cânta (to sing) and a lucra (to work) both belong to the first conjugation group, but their indicative first person singular forms are eu cânt (I sing) and eu lucrez (I work), showing completely different conjugation mechanisms.

External links

• Detailed Romanian grammar with a good section on verbs (PDF, 183 pages, 4.6 MB)
• Verbix.com: Romanian verbs conjugation (Attention: Generally good output, but a few verbs are not conjugated correctly.)
• Castingsnet.com: Romanian ↔ English online dictionary also providing a Romanian verb conjugator (few mistakes)