How to form the plural in Inuktitut

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

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Inuktitut 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 Inuktitut is generally formed by adding '-it' to the end of the word. Some words in Inuktitut form the plural by adding '-t' to the end of the word.

Examples

piqatīt

friends

itsivautāk

chairs

matuit

doors

arnait

women

illuit

houses

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Step 5 : The plural in Inuktitut

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

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