Petentul invocă termenul legal.

The claimant invokes the statutory deadline.

Breakdown of Petentul invocă termenul legal.

• termenul legal: the statutory deadline
• petentul: the claimant; complainant
• a invoca: to invoke; cite as a ground

Questions & Answers about Petentul invocă termenul legal.

Why does petentul end in -ul?

Because Romanian usually puts the definite article at the end of the noun, not before it.

• petent = petitioner / applicant
• petentul = the petitioner

So -ul here is the masculine singular definite article, roughly equivalent to English the.

The same thing happens in:

• termen = term / deadline
• termenul = the term / the deadline

What is the dictionary form of petentul?

The dictionary form is petent.

You add -ul to get the definite singular form:

• un petent = a petitioner
• petentul = the petitioner

This is a fairly formal/legal word, not an everyday conversational one.

What form is invocă?

Invocă is the 3rd person singular present tense of the verb a invoca.

So it means:

• he/she/it invokes
• or, with a noun subject, the petitioner invokes

In this sentence:

• petentul = subject
• invocă = verb

Romanian often leaves out subject pronouns, but here the subject is stated explicitly as a noun.