Bundled Plurals

With plain, Pattern #1 masculine nouns that don't end in ـه - -u, we can make a special kind of "bundled plural" to show that the things are closely lumped together.

This is done by adding a ـه - -a on the end of the Pattern #1 masculine noun. This only works as long as the noun does not end with an ـه - -u. This is just like we would add mayonnaise to a sandwich.

Note that this does not work with nouns like کارغه - kaarghú (crow (n. m.)) that end in a ـه - -u.

Unlike the other plural forms these bundled plurals can only be used when you have a quantifier in front of the noun such as a number or a phrase like یو شمېر - yo shmer (a number of...). You need to have some sort of number or quantifier before a bundled plural.