How to form the plural in Setswana

How to form the plural in Setswana

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

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

Examples

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

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