How to form the plural in Swahili

How to form the plural in Swahili

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

Swahili 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 Swahili is generally formed by a change to the beginning of the word. Some words in Swahili are the same in the singular and the plural.

Examples

watoto
children
viti
chairs
marafiki
friends
nyumba
houses
wavulana
boys
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Step 5 : The plural in Swahili

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

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