How is Romanian title capitalisation different from English?

English capitalises most words in a title (Title Case). Romanian uses sentence style: only the first word and proper nouns are capitalised, and everything else — articles, prepositions, conjunctions and ordinary nouns — stays lowercase.

Which words stay lowercase?

Articles (un, o, le), prepositions (de, la, pe, în, cu), conjunctions (și, sau, dar), and all common nouns and adjectives stay lowercase unless they begin the title. Only proper nouns break this rule.

How does the tool know proper nouns?

It cannot detect them automatically, so you list them in the proper-nouns box (one per line). Any word matching that list keeps its capital wherever it appears in the title. Everything else is lowercased.

Does it handle Romanian diacritics?

Yes. It correctly lowercases and capitalises ă, â, î, ș and ț. For example 'ȘTIINȚĂ' becomes 'știință' and is capitalised to 'Știință' when it is the first word.

What about all-caps input?

All-caps text is fully normalised: the tool lowercases the whole title first, then re-capitalises the first word and your listed proper nouns. So 'ISTORIA ROMÂNIEI' with 'România' listed becomes 'Istoria României'.

Romanian Title Case — Gera Tools

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This tool formats Romanian titles using the correct Romanian capitalisation convention, which is sentence style: only the first word and proper nouns are capitalised — unlike English Title Case, which capitalises most words.

How it works

The algorithm normalises the whole title to lowercase first (so all-caps input is handled), then re-capitalises exactly two things:

The first word of the title.
Any word you list as a proper noun (names of people, places, institutions, brands).

Everything else — articles (un, o, le), prepositions (de, la, pe, în, cu), conjunctions (și, sau, dar) and all common nouns and adjectives — stays lowercase. Romanian diacritics (ă, â, î, ș, ț) are correctly cased.

Why a proper-noun list is needed

Capitalisation of proper nouns cannot be inferred from text alone — piatra is a common noun (“stone”) but Piatra (Neamț) is a city. So you supply the proper nouns explicitly, one per line, and the tool preserves their capital wherever they occur. Matching is diacritic- and case-insensitive against your list.

Example

Input title: ISTORIA LIMBII ROMÂNE ÎN EUROPA Proper nouns: România (matches Române’s root only if listed exactly), Europa

Result: Istoria limbii române în Europa

Here only Istoria (first word) and Europa (a listed proper noun) are capitalised; limbii, române and the preposition în are lowercase. All processing runs in your browser.