How to form the plural in Amharic

You want to learn how to use the plural in Amharic? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Amharic lessons complete with useful examples. Apples, houses, books... we'll teach you everything you need to know about the plural in Amharic.

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Amharic nouns - plural

The plural is used, in general, to talk about more than one object. Examples in English would be 'dogs', 'cats', 'houses' and 'children'. The plural in Amharic is generally formed by adding '-oč' to the end of the word.

Examples

lijoč

children

bētoč

houses

wend lijoč

boys

beroč

doors

lijitoč

girls

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Step 5 : The plural in Amharic

The plural is important in Amharic when you need to talk about more than one thing. Using the nouns metshāf, wenber and ber (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn the plural of each of these words by heart. The plural forms are metshāfoč, wenberoč and beroč. Now learn how to use each of these Amharic plural nouns with the definite article. The nouns together with the definite article are metshāfoču, wenberoču and beroču (the books, the chairs, the doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about the Amharic plural including useful examples. After you've learned the plural of metshāf, wenber and ber, you can move on to Step 6 (Amharic demonstrative pronouns).

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