How to form the plural in Malayalam

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

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Malayalam 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 Malayalam is generally formed by adding '-kal' to the end of the word. Some words in Malayalam form the plural by adding '-nal' to the end of the word.

Examples

surtukal

friends

kuttikal

children

strīkal

women

purušanmār

men

vītukal

houses

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

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