Plural

Equivalent to zero is usually plural Any zero quantity can be plural or singular, though plural is the default.

In Ganda each singular class has a corresponding plural class (apart from one class which has no singular–plural distinction; also some plural classes correspond to more than one singular class) and there are no exceptions as there are in Swahili.

Plural is indicated either through endings (the sound plural ) or internal modification (the broken plural ).

The masculine plural amici is thought to reflect the Latin nominative plural -ī rather than accusative plural -ōs (Spanish -os); however, the other plurals are thought to stem from special developments of Latin -ās and -ēs.

Adjectives, verbs, and pronouns agree with their subjects' or antecedents' numbers, but only have a two-way distinction between singular and plural; dual nouns entail plural adjectives, verbs, and pronouns.

Before the 1890 Manifesto against plural marriage, Mormonism and Islam also shared in the belief in and practice of plural marriage, a practice now held in common by Islam and various branches of Mormon fundamentalism.

Besides the doctrinal reasons for plural marriage, the practice made some economic sense, as many of the plural wives were single women who arrived in Utah without brothers or fathers to offer them societal support.

Cormac's Glossary (also 9th century), and a gloss in the later manuscript H.3.18, both explain the plural word gudemain ("spectres") DIL p. 372 with the plural form morrígna.

Decimals are always plural Any quantity that includes decimal precision is plural.

Demonstrative and interrogative pronouns The demonstrative pronouns of English are this (plural these), and that (plural those), as in these are good, I like that.

Distributive plural Distributive plural number, for many instances viewed as independent individuals (for example, in Navajo ).

For the (especially British) treatment of teams as plural even if they have singular names, see Singulars with collective meaning treated as plural above.

Fractions Fractions are themselves singular or plural depending on the numerator (e.g. one eighth vs two eighths), and whatever they apply to can be singular or plural (e.

However, if the sense is a group of geographical objects, such as islands or mountains, a plural-form name will be treated as plural: The Hebrides are a group of islands off the coast of Scotland.

However, when a speaker wishes to emphasize that the individuals are acting separately, a plural pronoun may be employed with a singular or plural verb: the team takes their seats, rather than the team takes its seats.

In each paradigm, each constituent noun can take on any of eight persons, five singular and three plural, with the exception of nor-nori-nork in which the absolutive can only be third person singular or plural.

In English, the problem of gender determination does not arise in the plural, because gender in that language is reflected only in pronouns, and the plural pronoun they does not have gendered forms.

In some cases, a plural verb can be used when the answer is expected to be plural * What have big ears and trunks?

Similarly, some words can have і in some declensions when most of the declension have o, for example слово (nominative singular), слова (nominative plural) but слiв (genitive plural).

Similarly, termites was the three-syllable plural of termes; this singular was lost, however, and the plural form reduced to two syllables.