How to form the plural in Chinese

How to form the plural in Chinese

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

Chinese 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'. Unlike English, nouns in Chinese generally have the same form in both the singular and the plural.

Examples

nánrén
men
háizi
children
fángzi
houses
shū
books
nánhái
boys
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Step 5 : The plural in Chinese

The plural is important in Chinese when you need to talk about more than one thing. Using the nouns shū, yĭzì and mén (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn the plural of each of these words by heart. This is easy in Chinese, because in Chinese, the plural is usually the same form as the singular. You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about the Chinese plural including useful examples. After you've learned the plural of shū, yĭzì and mén, you can move on to Step 6 (Chinese demonstrative pronouns).

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