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Two types of masculine noun

Most masculine nouns ending -a in the singular change to -e in the plural. The same happens with most adjectives ending -a.

बड़ा कमरा
bada kamra big room
बड़ा कमरा
bade kamre big rooms

Other masculine nouns don't change at all in the plural – they behave like the English word 'sheep'. In the following, though the noun 3T"Rlfr admi doesn't change, its status as singular or plural is revealed by the adjective changing from singular -ii to plural -e:

Other masculine nouns don't change at all in the plural – they behave like the English word 'sheep'. In the following, though the noun आदमी  admi doesn't change, its status as singular or plural is revealed by the adjective changing from singular -ii to plural -e:

बड़ा आदमी
bada admi big man
बड़े आदमी
bade admi big men

You'll sometimes find that neither the adjective nor the noun is of the changing type. As with the numerically ambiguous English phrase''fat sheep', you can only tell the number from the context:

आसान कम
aasan kam easy work / easy jobs
साफ माकन
saf makan clean house / clean houses

A handful of nouns ending in -abelong to this 'non-changing' group:
पिता  pita 'father',
चाचा  chacha 'uncle',
रजिया raja 'king',
नेता neta 'leader, politician.

मेरे  पिता और चाचा  दोनों नेता है .
mere pita aur chacha donon neta hai.
My father and uncle are both politicians.

Two types of feminine noun
Feminine nouns ending -ii
(like लड़की ladki 'girl')
or -i (शक्ति  shakti 'power')
change this ending
to -iyan
in the plural, but feminine
adjectives stay the same in the plural: