How to form the plural in Malay

How to form the plural in Malay

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

Malay 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 Malay is generally formed by means of duplication.

Examples

perempuan-perempuan
women
rumah-rumah
houses
lelaki-lelaki
men
pintu-pintu
doors
kerusi-kerusi
chairs
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Step 5 : The plural in Malay

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

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