plural
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old French plurel, from Latin pluralis, adjective from plus, pluris ("more"), + adjective suffix -alis.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Adjective
plural (not comparable)
[edit] Antonyms
[edit] Translations
more than one
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[edit] Noun
plural (plural plurals)
- (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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Antonyms
[edit] Translations
word in plural form
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[edit] See also
- (grammatical numbers) grammatical number, number; singular, dual, trial, quadral, paucal, plural (Category: en:Grammar) [edit]
[edit] Catalan
[edit] Etymology
Latin plurale
[edit] Adjective
plural m. and f. (plural plurals)
[edit] Noun
plural m. (plural plurals)
[edit] French
[edit] Adjective
plural m. (f. plurale, m. plural pluraux, f. plural plurales)
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[edit] Galician
[edit] Noun
plural m. and f. (plural plurais)
[edit] Occitan
[edit] Noun
plural m. (plural plurals)
[edit] Serbo-Croatian
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /plǔraːl/
- Hyphenation: plu‧ral
[edit] Noun
plùrāl m. (Cyrillic spelling плу̀ра̄л)
[edit] Declension
declension of plural
| singular | plural | |
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| nominative | plùrāl | plurali |
| genitive | plurála | plurala |
| dative | pluralu | pluralima |
| accusative | plural | plurale |
| vocative | plurale | plurali |
| locative | pluralu | pluralima |
| instrumental | pluralom | pluralima |
[edit] Synonyms
[edit] Spanish
[edit] Adjective
plural m. and f. (plural plurales)
[edit] Noun
plural m. (plural plurales)
- (grammar) plural
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