The 250 Most Common Romanian Nouns

Ranked by real-world frequency, with gender and an example sentence. Study all of them free with spaced repetition.

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The 250 Most Common Romanian Nouns: the list

Gender: m. masculine · f. feminine · n. neuter · c. common

Tips for learning Romanian nouns

• Neuter nouns take masculine agreement in the singular and feminine agreement in the plural, so learn each neuter noun's plural form together with its gender rather than the label alone.
• The ending -e tells you very little about gender: it appears on feminine nouns such as noapte, petrecere and vedere, on the neuter spate and on the masculine frate, so commit gender to memory word by word.
• A few entries are forms used for addressing someone directly rather than plain dictionary forms — amice for a friend, iubito for a loved one — so recognise them instead of filing them away as unrelated vocabulary.
• Before you type an answer, run the indefinite article through your head: un for masculine and neuter nouns, o for feminine ones. That way the gender is recalled at the same moment as the word.
• Group nouns by gender when you review, rather than strictly by rank; seeing frate next to other masculine nouns despite its -e ending helps the exception stick.
• Practise in the productive direction — read the English prompt and produce the Romanian — because recognising a word like zi or om is far easier than recalling it from scratch.