The plural: -e and -ain live to the end of the phrase
Masculine words in -a change their ending to -e in the plural: kamra — room, kamre — rooms. Bacha — child, bachche — children. Feminine words in -i take -ain: larki — girl, larkiain — girls. For example: “نئے کپڑے مہنگے ہیں” — The new clothes are expensive. A rule from the Urdu course: worked out on examples, not memorized as a wording.
How it works
Masculine words in -a change their ending to -e in the plural: kamra — room, kamre — rooms. Bacha — child, bachche — children. Feminine words in -i take -ain: larki — girl, larkiain — girls.
An adjective in the long -a follows its word. Naye kapre — "new clothes" — both noun and quality stand in the plural. Feminine adjectives in -i do not change at all — the gender is already written in their ending.
In the phrase the plural is heard twice: on the noun and on the link. Kamre bare hain — "the rooms big are": the final hain instead of hai confirms it is not one room.
Table
| One | Many | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| کمرہ | کمرے | room — rooms |
| بچہ | بچے | child — children |
| قمیض | قمیضیں | shirt — shirts |
| لڑکی | لڑکیاں | girl — girls |
| کتاب | کتابیں | book — books |
By example
- نئے کپڑے مہنگے ہیںnae kapre mehange hainThe new clothes are expensive
- لڑکیاں سکول جاتی ہیںlarkiyan skul dzhati hainThe girls go to school
- یہ جوتے چھوٹے ہیںye dzhute chhote hainThese shoes are small
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 plural rules?
Masculine words in -a change their ending to -e in the plural: kamra — room, kamre — rooms. Bacha — child, bachche — children. Feminine words in -i take -ain: larki — girl, larkiain — girls.
Kapre plural why?
An adjective in the long -a follows its word. Naye kapre — "new clothes" — both noun and quality stand in the plural. Feminine adjectives in -i do not change at all — the gender is already written in their ending.
Urdu adjective plural agreement?
An adjective in the long -a follows its word. Naye kapre — "new clothes" — both noun and quality stand in the plural. Feminine adjectives in -i do not change at all — the gender is already written in their ending.
Kamra kamre difference?
Masculine words in -a change their ending to -e in the plural: kamra — room, kamre — rooms. Bacha — child, bachche — children. Feminine words in -i take -ain: larki — girl, larkiain — girls.
What does it look like in a Urdu example sentence?
“نئے کپڑے مہنگے ہیں” (nae kapre mehange hain) — The new clothes are expensive. A rule is easier to test on sentences like this than to memorize as a wording: what surfaces in conversation is the sentence.