You want to learn how to use the plural in Hausa? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Hausa lessons complete with useful examples. Apples, houses, books... we'll teach you everything you need to know about the plural in Hausa.
The plural is used, in general, to talk about more than one object. Examples in English would be 'dogs', 'cats', 'houses' and 'children'. The are several ways to form the plural in Hausa.
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The plural is important in Hausa when you need to talk about more than one thing. Using the nouns littafi, kujera and kofa (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn the plural of each of these words by heart. The plural forms are littattafa, kujerun and kofofin. Now learn how to use each of these Hausa plural nouns with the definite article. The nouns together with the definite article are littattafain, kujerun and kofofin (the books, the chairs, the doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about the Hausa plural including useful examples. After you've learned the plural of littafi, kujera and kofa, you can move on to Step 6 (Hausa demonstrative pronouns).
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