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The pluralization of Cherokee words can be done with many different pronouns, the basic pluralizing of verbs is with specific pronouns and for pluralizing the third person objects using g-, ga-, d-, de-, or di- depending if the objects are animate, inanimate or the dialect of Cherokee.
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Pluralizing Nouns
There are up to four methods for pluralizing nouns, either pluralization of the subject and/or pluralization of the object.
ᎠᏕᏲᎲᏍᎩ. Adehyohvsgi. A teacher of someone (Singular subject and singular object)
ᎠᎾᏕᏲᎲᏍᎩ. Anadehyohvsgi. His teachers. (Plural subject)
ᏗᏕᏲᎲᏍᎩ. Didehyohvsgi. Their teacher. Teacher, (Plural object)
ᏗᎾᏕᏲᎲᏍᎩ. Dinadehyohvsgi. Their teachers. Teachers. (Plural object and plural subject)
ᎠᏕᏠᏆᏍᏗ. Adetlokwasdi. A student who learns a single subject. (Single subject & single object)
ᏗᏕᏠᏆᏍᏗ. Didetlokwasdi. A student who learns multiple subjects. (Single subject & plural object)
ᎠᎾᏕᏠᏆᏍᏗ. Anadetlokwasdi. Students who are learning a single subject. (Plural subject & singular object)
ᏗᎾᏕᏠᏆᏍᏗ. Dinadetlokwasdi. Students who are learning multiple subjects. (Plural subjects & plural objects)
Inanimate Objects
Pluralizing inanimate objects is performed with the prefixes d-, de-, or di-.
- ᎠᏍᏚᏗ. asdudi. Door
- ᏗᏍᏚᏗ. disdudi. Doors
- ᎤᏁᎬᎭᎢ. unegvhai. Blanket
- ᏧᏁᎬᎭᎢ. tsunegvhai. Blankets
When di- precedes a-, a- is then dropped from the word. So asdudi becomes disdudi. Also, when di- precedes u-, di- changes to ts- which changes the word to tsunegvhai.
Certain dialects of Cherokee will use the de- prefix in which these words could be dasdudi or dunegvhai.
Animate Objects
Pluralizing animate objects is done on either verbs or posessive nouns only.
Examples:
ᎠᏍᎦᏯ ᏥᎪᏘ. asgaya tsigohti. I see a (single/one) man.
ᎠᏂᏍᎦᏯ ᎦᏥᎪᏘ. anisgaya gatsigohti. I see (them) men.
ᏌᏊ ᎩᏟ ᎠᎩᎧᎭ. Sagwu gitli agikaha. I have one dog.
ᎯᎸᏍᎩᏂ ᎩᏟ ᎬᎩᎧᎭ. Hilvsgini gitli gvgikaha. I have several (them) dogs.
ᎤᏪᏱ. uweyi. his child.
ᏧᏪᏱ. tsuweyi. His (them) children.
ᎠᏇᏱ. agweyi. My child.
ᎬᏇᏱ. gvgweyi. My (them) children.
ᏗᏇᏱ. digweyi. My (them) children.
ᏗᏕᏲᎲᏍᎩ. Didehyohvsgi. A teacher (of them)
ᏣᏂ ᏗᏕᏲᎲᏍᎩ. Jani didehyohvsgi. John is a teacher.
ᎯᎠ ᎠᎾᏕᏠᏆᏍᎩ ᏗᏕᏲᎲᏍᎩ ᏣᏂ. Hia anadetlokwasgi didehyohvsgi Jani. These are Johns students.
ᏗᎾᏕᏲᎲᏍᎩ. dinadehyohvsgi. Teachers (of them).
ᏣᏂ ᎠᎴ ᎺᎵ ᏗᎾᏕᏲᎲᏍᎩ. John and Mary are teachers.
ᎯᎠ ᎠᎾᏕᏠᏆᏍᎩ ᏗᎾᏕᏲᎲᏍᎩ ᏣᏂ ᎠᎴ ᎺᎵ. These are John's and Mary's students.
With certain adjectives, such as hilvsgi and sgwiya, the animate plural is placed at the end of the words.
- ᏍᏈᏯᏂ ᏴᏫ. sgwiyani yvwi. There are too many people.
- ᏭᏂᎷᏨ ᎯᎸᏍᎩᏂ ᏴᏫ. wuniluhtsv hilvsgini yvwi. Several people arrived.
Plural Acts
The pluralization of acts is done with the same prefixes as the inanimate objects, de-, di-, d-.
- ᏕᎦᏁᏟᏴᎠdeganedliyva. He is changing them, or he is changing it (plural acts of changing).
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