How to form the plural in Ojibwe

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

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Ojibwe 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 are several ways to form the plural in Ojibwe.

Examples

ikwezensag

girls

ikwewag

women

abinōjīnhyag

children

gwīwizensag

boys

apabiwinan

chairs

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Step 5 : The plural in Ojibwe

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

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