Gender: masculine in -a, feminine in -i
Every noun has a gender, and it is not about sex but about shape: Words ending in -a are masculine. Words in -i are feminine. Bacha — child, masculine; chaai — tea, feminine, though tea is not any "she". For example: “کیلا میٹھا ہے” — The banana is sweet. A rule from the Urdu course: worked out on examples, not memorized as a wording.
How it works
Every noun has a gender, and it is not about sex but about shape: Words ending in -a are masculine. Words in -i are feminine. Bacha — child, masculine; chaai — tea, feminine, though tea is not any "she".
Adjectives in the long -a follow the noun: meetha — sweet (m.), meethi — sweet (f.). Say meetha about the tea and a native speaker hears the slip at once.
The plural also holds to the vowel ending: masculine changes -a to -e (bachche — children), feminine adds -ain (larkiain — girls). Words ending in a consonant often do not change in the plural at all.
Table
| Word | One | Many |
|---|---|---|
| بچہ — child | بچہ | بچے |
| لڑکی — girl | لڑکی | لڑکیاں |
| کتاب — book | کتاب | کتابیں |
By example
- کیلا میٹھا ہےkela mitha haiThe banana is sweet
- چائے میٹھی ہےchai mithi haiThe tea is sweet
How the rule settles in your head
A rule is not memorized from an explanation. It is memorized from an attempt to use it and a mistake — that is why the app delivers it mixed in with words, not as a separate lesson: it resurfaces exactly where you forgot it.
Frequently asked
Urdu noun gender rules?
Every noun has a gender, and it is not about sex but about shape: Words ending in -a are masculine. Words in -i are feminine. Bacha — child, masculine; chaai — tea, feminine, though tea is not any "she".
Masculine feminine urdu nouns?
Every noun has a gender, and it is not about sex but about shape: Words ending in -a are masculine. Words in -i are feminine. Bacha — child, masculine; chaai — tea, feminine, though tea is not any "she".
Urdu plural formation?
The plural also holds to the vowel ending: masculine changes -a to -e (bachche — children), feminine adds -ain (larkiain — girls). Words ending in a consonant often do not change in the plural at all.
Meetha meethi difference urdu?
Adjectives in the long -a follow the noun: meetha — sweet (m.), meethi — sweet (f.) Say meetha about the tea and a native speaker hears the slip at once.
What does it look like in a Urdu example sentence?
“کیلا میٹھا ہے” (kela mitha hai) — The banana is sweet. A rule is easier to test on sentences like this than to memorize as a wording: what surfaces in conversation is the sentence.