Looking for plural forms of Mandarin Chinese nouns?

Short answer: No need for that~

We don’t use grammar tricks like declension, inflection or things like that*. (Hooray!)

*part of the reason we (native speaker of Mandarin ) don’t use declension in English very well. XD

 

Let’s take a look of some examples:

 

One year =

Two years =

Where:

 : one

 : two in conversation

 : year, years

 

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Many years = 很多

Where:

很 : very (adv.)

多 : many (adj.)

 : year, years

 

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After all these years = 經過這些以後

Where:

經過 : pass or past

這些 : these

 : year, years

以後 : afterwards

 

===From pop culture===

Those Years, The Girl We Went After Together = 那些,我們一起追的女孩

Where:

那些 : those

 : year, years

我們 : we

一起 : together

追 : go after

的 : of, ~’s (possessive particle)

女孩 : girl

 

This is a name translated literally from a well-known Taiwanese romance film, it then became very famous in China as well.

You Are the Apple of My Eye (Chinese: 那些年,我們一起追的女孩, literally
You Are the Apple of My Eye (Chinese: 那些年,我們一起追的女孩, literally “Those Years, The Girl We Went After Together”) is a 2011 Taiwanese Romance film.

English wiki entry

Trailer with English subtitle

 

=== ATTACH SUFFIX ===

Sometimes we use a suffix to build the plural form.
For example:

I =

We =

You = , 妳 (for woman)

You = 你, 妳們 (for women)

He = 他

They = 他

She = 她

They = 她

 

Where 「」 is the plural marker for pronouns.

 

Isn’t that just a piece of cake? 🍰 😀