How to form the plural in Viet­namese

Step 5 : The plural in Viet­namese

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

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