Talk:-s

German plural suffix

Some discussion of the German plural suffix -s can be found at Wiktionary:Tea_room/2015/June#Jungs. - -sche (discuss) 16:05, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Finnish -s (Etymology 2) and optative

Just a wild suggestion that popped into my mind, but could the -s suffix used for requests and such have its origin in the -os / -ös suffix for the second-person optative (a mood that is used to form polite or subtle requests but is now archaic)? Perhaps the suffix got reduced into -s from the influence of verbs that already had the root end in o, such as katsoa -> katsos, being reinterpreted as -s. SURJECTION _{·talk·contr·log·} 19:30, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Unlikely now that I have researched more. — surjection ⟨?⟩ 11:18, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

-s as in onomastics

onomastics is apparently from onomastic, but I don't think this page has a suffix entry corresponding to that use of -s yet. Not sure where it's from — Mnemosientje (t · c) 14:03, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

many a times

Which meaning is used in many a times? --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:04, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

gots

what meaning is used in gots? --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:40, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

third-person singular simple present rendezvous

How is the third-person singular simple present rendezvous pronounced? --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:42, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Plural: occasionally, a single final consonant is doubled

Most nouns form their plurals simply by adding -s. But if a word ends with the sound of /s/, /sh/, /ch/, or /z/, the plural is formed by adding -es— thus buses. Only occasionally, a single final consonant is doubled—thus fez makes fezzes. --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:47, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

The better plural for the noun is yeses because, like buses, it follows the usual rule for nouns ending in -s. Yet, the verb yes is inflected yessed, yessing. Therefore, the third-person singular verb is yesses <he’s so uxorious that he yesses her constantly>. --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:31, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Mss

What kind of plural does Mss represent? --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:45, 17 March 2021 (UTC)