Armenian Grammar

If you're trying to learn the most essential topics about Armenian you will find some useful resources including a course about adjectives, adverbs, articles, gender (feminine, masculine...), negation, nouns, numbers, phrases, plural, prepositions, pronouns, questions, verbs, vocabulary, excercises... to help you with your Armenian grammar Enjoy our courses!

Armenian Lessons

Learning Armenian can help you communicate with other people who speak Armenian. The following courses will provide you with some help based on the lessons you choose. Here is a list of what we offer:

1-    Plural Lesson

While in English, the plural is formed by adding (s) to the singular. In Armenian, to form the plural of nouns and adjectives we add (-er, ner; Arm: եր, ներ): The suffix "-er" is added to the end of monosyllabic nouns. The suffix "-ner" is added to the end of polysyllabic nouns.

Here are some examples:

Day: "Or" becomes "Orer"; black: “Sev” becomes “Sever”

Dish: "Aman" becomes "Aman-ner"; Red: “Karmir” becomes “Karmirner”

 

 

2-    Adverbs Lesson

While in English adverbs are usually formed by adding (-ly) to adjectives. In Armenian many adverbs are formed from adjectives, simply by adding the suffix -oren to the singular form of adjectives. Examples:

 

Dandakh (slow) becomes dandakhoren (slowly)

Zarmanali (amazing) becomes zarmanalioren (amazingly)

 

However that’s not always the case. Some words are adverbs by nature. For example:

Hima (now), irakan (really), and shutov (soon) are all Armenian adverbs.

 

3-    Adjectives Lesson

Like in English, in Armenian an adjective doesn’t change when the noun changes, For example:

a)    Masculine to feminine example:

Sa im pokrik tkhan e (this is my little son) becomes: Sa im pokrik akhchikn e (this is my little daughter)

 

b)    Singular to plural example:

Sa im spitak katun e (this is my white cat) becomes: Srank im spitak katunern en (these are my white cats).

 

4-    Numbers Lesson

In Armenian numbers from 1 to 10 are unique and therefore need to be memorized individually. Numbers from 11-19 are formed by using the following pattern: for example 12 can be formed by using 10 + while connecting them: 10- tas, 2 – erku; 12- tas-n-erku; 20-qsan, 5-hing; 25=qsanhing.  

 

5-    Articles Lesson

Definite Article:

Unlike English, which has only one definite article “the", Armenian has 2 definite articles (“-e” and “-n”), which are added to the end of the word. The definite article “-e” is added to the words that are ended in consonant letters, :-n” is added to the word ended in vowels:  

 

Girk (book) – girke (the book)

Katu (cat) – katun (the cat)

 

Indefinite Article:

While we have (a / an / some) in English as indefinite articles, in Armenian there is no indefinite article at all.

 

Yes unem girk (I have a book )

 

6-    Verbs Lessons

-       Present Tense

In Armenian, verbs don’t take the endings to form the present tense but different particles are added to the verb: