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Nouns: No Gender & Plurals

Gender-free nouns

Persian has no grammatical gender

Nouns are neither masculine nor feminine.

💬 Examples
کتاب
ketāb
book
📝 No gender to learn
دوست
dust
friend (m or f)
📝 One word regardless of gender
Plural -hā for most nouns

Add ها (-hā).

📊 Plurals
Type Suffix Example
general ها -hā کتاب‌ها
animate / people (formal) ان -ān مردان (men)
broken (Arabic loans) varies کتب (books, formal)
💬 Examples
کتاب‌ها
ketāb-hā
books
📝 -hā = general plural
خانه‌ها
xāne-hā
houses
📝 -hā after any noun
Animate nouns can take -ān (formal)

Especially people, in formal or written Persian.

💬 Examples
مردان
mardān
men
📝 -ān for people (formal)
دانشجویان
dāneshjuyān
students
📝 -ān animate plural