Laravel localization in Romanian Română

Locale codes

Set the base locale in config/app.php. For regional variants, Romanian commonly uses: ro_RO, ro_MD

// config/app.php
'locale' => 'ro',
'fallback_locale' => 'en',

// Or switch at runtime
App::setLocale('ro');

Plural rules: what Romanian actually needs

CLDR defines 3 cardinal categories for Romanian. The sample numbers below were computed by ICU for this exact locale:

Laravel's trans_choice() maps numbers to 3 pipe-separated forms for this locale:

// lang/ro/messages.php
'items' => ':count item|:count items'

// Usage
trans_choice('messages.items', $count, ['count' => $count]);

This language uses 3 plural forms. Laravel's built-in trans_choice only resolves two, so for grammatically correct output use an ICU MessageFormat package or handle the extra forms explicitly against the CLDR categories above.

Try any number live in the pluralization tester.

Localized dates with Carbon

Real output for Romanian (ro locale), generated by Carbon for March 21, 2026:

$date = now()->locale('ro');

$date->translatedFormat('l, j F Y');
// "sâmbătă, 21 martie 2026"

$date->isoFormat('LLLL');
// "sâmbătă, 21 martie 2026 14:30"

$date->isoFormat('L');
// "21.03.2026"

$date->subDays(3)->diffForHumans();
// "3 luni în urmă"

What to watch out for in Romanian

• Definite article is a suffix (cartea = "the book"), so "the {noun}" patterns do not map one-to-one.
• Correct diacritics use comma-below ș and ț (U+0219, U+021B), not the cedilla forms; verify font support.
• Three plural categories (one/few/other): numbers above 19 take the "few" form with "de".
• Tu/dumneavoastră formal distinction; decimal comma with dot as thousands separator (1.234,56).

Framework strings already translated

Laravel's own validation, auth and pagination strings are maintained in Romanian by the open-source Laravel-Lang project (MIT). Install them, then manage your app's own strings live:

composer require laravel-lang/common --dev
php artisan lang:add ro
php artisan lang:update