Gender and Number

Domain( திணை )

In Tamil language so called domain is classified into two categories.

1) Human Domain ( உயர் திணைகள் )

Human beings:

Human proper Nouns (Kumar -குமார் ) and Human Personal Nouns(Doctors-.மருத்துவர்கள் )

2) Non Human Domain ( அஃறினை)

Plants , animals and other living things

Gender ( பால்)

Tamil language has only the natural gender ( only for human beings ) unlike other languages like Hindi which has grammatical genders.In human , Tamil language has Masculine and Feminine genders.All non-human nouns are referred in neutral gender except for animals like காளை ( bull ) and பசு ( cow ).

Proper Noun

Personal Noun

Singular and Plural ( numbers)

Both the domains have singular and plural.The above personal noun examples can be considered for singular reference. ‘ கள் ‘ is added at the end of singular to make it plurals. The following are the examples for plurals.