How to form the plural in Kinyarwanda

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

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Kinyarwanda 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 Kinyarwanda is generally formed by a change to the beginning of the word.

Examples

inshuti

friends

ibitabo

books

abakobwa

girls

abana

children

abahungu

boys

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Step 5 : The plural in Kinyarwanda

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

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