How to form the plural in Tagalog

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

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Tagalog 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 Tagalog is generally formed using the word 'mga'.

Examples

mga bata

children

mga lalaki

men

mga babae

women

mga bahay

houses

mga upuan

chairs

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Step 5 : The plural in Tagalog

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

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