plural

See also Plural, and plurál

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Old French plurel, from Latin pluralis, adjective from plus, pluris ("more"), + adjective suffix -alis.

Pronunciation

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• Homophone: pleural

Adjective

plural (not comparable)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) More than one of something.

Antonyms

• singular

Translations

more than one

Albanian: shumës (sq) Armenian: հոգնակի (hy) (hognaki) Catalan: plural (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 複數 (zh), 复数 (zh) (fùshù), 眾數 (zh), 众数 (zh) (zhòngshù) Dutch: meervoudig, meervoudige Esperanto: plurnombra (eo) Finnish: monikollinen, monikko- French: pluriel (fr) German: Plural-, pluralisch Greek: πληθυντικός (el) (plithindikós) Hebrew: לשון רבים (he) (lišon rabim) Icelandic: fleir- (is), marg- (is), fleirtölu- (is), í fleirtölu (is) Indonesian: jamak

Italian: plurale (it) Japanese: 複数 (ja) (ふくすう, fukusū) Korean: 복수 (ko) (boksu) Occitan: plural (oc) Russian: множественный (ru) (mnóžestvennyj) Scottish Gaelic: iolra (gd) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: множински (sh) m., плурални (sh) m. Roman: množinski (sh) m., pluralni (sh) m. Spanish: plural (es) Swahili: wingi (sw), akthari (sw) Swedish: plural (sv), flertal (sv) Ukrainian: чисельний (uk) (chyselny)

Noun

plural (plural plurals)

1. (grammar): a word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.

Usage notes

• Many languages have singular and plural forms for one item or more than one item. Some have a singular form for one, dual form for two, trial form for three, paucal form for several, and plural for more than two (e.g., Arabic, Fijian).
• While the plural form generally refers to two or more persons or things, that is not always the case. The plural form is often used for zero persons or things, for fractional things in a quantity greater than one, and for people or things when the quantity is unknown.
• In English, the plural is most often formed simply by adding the letter "s" to the end of a noun, e.g. apple/apples. There are many exceptions, however, such as echo/echoes, mouse/mice, child/children, deer/deer (same word), etc.

Antonyms

• singular

Translations

word in plural form

Albanian: shumës (sq) Arabic: جمع (ar) (jamʻ), صيغة الجمع (ar) (ṣīġatu 'l-jamʻ) Armenian: հոգնակի թիվ (hy) (hognaki t’iv), հոգնակի (hy) (hognaki) Catalan: plural (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 複數 (zh), 复数 (zh) (fùshù), 眾數 (zh), 众数 (zh) (zhòngshù) Czech: množné číslo (cs) n. Dutch: meervoud (nl) n. Estonian: mitmus (et) Finnish: monikko (fi) French: pluriel (fr) m. German: Plural (de) m., Mehrzahl (de) f. Greek: πληθυντικός (el) (plithindikós) m. Icelandic: fleirtala (is) f. Indonesian: bentuk jamak Italian: plurale (it) m. Japanese: 複数形 (ja) (ふくすうけい, fukusū-kei) Korean: 복수형 (ko) (boksuhyeong)

Kurdish: پڕژمار (ku) (pirrjimar) Latin: pluralis (la) Norwegian: flertall (no) n. Occitan: plural (oc) m. Polish: liczba mnoga (pl) f. Portuguese: plural (pt) m. Russian: множественное число (ru) (mnóžestvennoje čisló) n. Scottish Gaelic: iolra (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: множина f., плурал m. Roman: množina f., plural m. Slovak: množné číslo (sk) n., plurál (sk) m. Spanish: plural (es) m. Swahili: wingi (sw) Swedish: plural (sv) n., pluralis (sv) n. Ukrainian: множина (uk) (množyná) f. West Frisian: meartal n.

See also

• (grammatical numbers) grammatical number, number; singular, dual, trial, quadral, paucal, plural ^{(Category: en:Grammar) [edit]}

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Catalan

Etymology

Latin plurale

Adjective

plural m. and f. (plural plurals)

1. plural

Noun

plural m. (plural plurals)

1. plural

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French

Adjective

plural m. (f. plurale, m. plural pluraux, f. plural plurales)

1. plural, large

Related terms

• pluralisme
• pluraliste
• pluralité
• pluri-
• pluriel

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Galician

Noun

plural m. and f. (plural plurais)

1. plural

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Occitan

Noun

plural m. (plural plurals)

1. plural

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /plǔraːl/
• Hyphenation: plu‧ral

Noun

plùrāl m. (Cyrillic spelling плу̀ра̄л)

1. (uncountable) plural

Declension

    declension of plural

	singular	plural
nominative	plùrāl	plurali
genitive	plurála	plurala
dative	pluralu	pluralima
accusative	plural	plurale
vocative	plurale	plurali
locative	pluralu	pluralima
instrumental	pluralom	pluralima

Synonyms

• množìna

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Spanish

Adjective

plural m. and f. (plural plurales)

1. plural, multiple

Noun

plural m. (plural plurales)

1. (grammar) plural