Mandarin: 複數‎, 复数‎ (fùshù), 眾數‎, 众数‎ (zhòngshù)Ī plural noun can be used in many different contexts in the English language.Icelandic: fleir-‎, marg-‎, fleirtölu-‎, í fleirtölu‎.German: Plural-, pluralisch‎, plural‎, mehrfach‎, Mehrzahl-‎.Roman: množinski‎ (masc.), pluralni‎ (masc.).The below list of translations of plural is provided by Word Sense. These are called cognates, which are words and phrases in different languages that likely have the same root or language of origin, causing them to sound the same. You may notice that some of these translations of plural look and sound similar to one another. Many different languages also contain words that mean plural. Remember: plural nouns need plural verbs.

An example of an irregular plural noun are words like cactus, tooth, criterion, goose, alumnus or octopus, which in their plural forms are cacti, teeth, criteria, geese, alumni, and octopi (not octopuses!) This is often the case with Latin and Greek words where the noun ends in um. However, there are many irregular nouns that may have a different change to the end of the word to form the plural word, not the adding of letters. To make different plural forms from a singular noun, often an s, ies, ves, ch, ss or an es is added to the end of the singular forms for regular plural nouns. There are many categories of nouns including a collective noun, common nouns, proper nouns, uncountable nouns, a possessive noun, noncount nouns, a countable noun, mass noun, and more. According to 7ESL, a plural noun is a noun that represents more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

What is a plural noun