Romanian articles are postnominal. This means that they do not precede the noun, but rather they follow it. This makes Romanian different from other Romance languages. Another difference is that Romanian has three genders- masculine, feminine and neuter, as was the case in Latin. Other Romance languages only have masculine and feminine. Let us look at examples of Romanian nouns and articles.
The Romanian word for dog is câine. It is a masculine noun. The Romanian word for cat is pisică. This word is a feminine noun. The word for hotel is hotel, and it is a neuter noun. Now let us look at these nouns when they are combined with articles.
dog câine
the dog câinii
the dogs câinele
cat pisică
the cat pisica
the cats pisicile
hotel hotel
the hotel hotelul
the hotels hotelurile
Romanian articles are suffixes. This makes them different from the articles of other Romance languages. In Romanian the combination of a noun and article is written as not one word but two.
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