How to form the plural in Zulu

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

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

Examples

abafana

boys

abafazi

women

amadoda

men

izincwadi

books

izintombi

girls

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this horse

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Step 5 : The plural in Zulu

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

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