Gender

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There is no grammatical gender for Sylheti nouns. Easy!

Number

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Sylheti nouns can be singular and plural.

The singular noun is the default form.

The noun is made plural by adding one of the following two suffixes (endings).

1. Plural suffix (ending) -okhol

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Observe the following examples.

Singular Plural
kholom
pen
kholom okhol
pens
boi
book
boi okhol
books
goru
cow
goru okhol
cows

As you can see, the plural ending -okhol can be applied to inanimate objects (pen, book, etc.), animals (cow) but rarely human beings (boy). When applied to nouns depicting human beings, it conveys a sense of inanimate thing-ness or even disrespect for them.