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Note for Feminine ending with अ(a) there are two ways of creating plural. For some plural ends using आ(A) and for some plural ends with ई (I). There is no specific rule which one to use when. You will understand it as you will read more and more Marathi.
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Interestingly there is no specific rules based on which gender is decided !! So you have to do your guess. As you keep reading, listening Marathi more and more you will now about what is considered what.
Similarly depending on the gender and ending vowel of the word it plural is formed differently.
I have tried to summarize few rules here
Gender
|
Ending vowel
|
Plural
form will
end with
|
Singular –Plural Example
|
Meaning in English
|
Masculine
|
आ (A)
|
ए (e)
|
फळा - फळे
phaLA – phaLe
फुगा – फुगे
phugA – phuge
|
Board - Boards
Ballon -Ballons
|
Feminine
|
ई (I)
|
या (yA )
|
बरणी - बरण्या
baraNI baraNyA
सावली - सावल्या
sAvalI - sAvalyA
|
jar-jars
shadow - shadows
|
Feminine
|
अ(a)
|
आ(A)
ई (I) |
माळ – माळा
mAL - mALA
मांजर - मांजरी
mAMjar - mAMjarI
|
garland - garlands
cat - cats |
Neuter
|
अ(a)
|
ए (e)
|
पान – पाने
pAn - pAne
|
leaf - leaves
|
Neuter
|
ए (e)
|
ई (I)
|
पाते - पाती
pAte - pAtI
|
blade - blades
|
Neuter
|
ऊ (U)
|
ए (e)
|
पिल्लू पिल्ले
pillU - pille
|
chick - chicken
|
Note for Feminine ending with अ(a) there are two ways of creating plural. For some plural ends using आ(A) and for some plural ends with ई (I). There is no specific rule which one to use when. You will understand it as you will read more and more Marathi.
For other words which do not fit in above rules, the singular and plural forms are same.
e.g. earthen pot is called माठ in Marathi which is treated as masculine. So its plural form is माठ only
e.g. 1 earthen pot 10 earthen pots 1 माठ – 10 माठ
I have started creating list of Marathi nouns, their gender and plural forms. List is uploaded as an excel sheet at
https://sites.google.com/site/learnmarathionline/home/nouns-gender-plural-and-forms-for-prepositions
Download the excel sheet to view it correctly.
Excel sheet is not up-to-date. I will keep adding more and more nouns. So please check this link frequently to see newly added nouns.
https://sites.google.com/site/learnmarathionline/home/nouns-gender-plural-and-forms-for-prepositions
Download the excel sheet to view it correctly.
Excel sheet is not up-to-date. I will keep adding more and more nouns. So please check this link frequently to see newly added nouns.
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