- the plural, in many languages, is one of the
values of the
grammatical category of
number .
plural forms of noun s
typically denote a
-
distinctions (such as 'one', 'two', or 'three or more in many
languages including english , the
number categories are
singular and
plural .
-
inflected for
grammatical number – that is, if they are of the
countable type, they
generally have
different forms for
singular and
plural .
-
polygamy (called
plural marriage by
mormons in the 19th
century or the
principle by
modern fundamentalist practitioners of
polygamy ) was
- the
majestic plural (pluralis
maiestatis in
latin , literally, 'the
plural of majesty'), is the use of a
plural pronoun to
refer to a
-
plural direct objects end with the
combination -ojn (rhymes with 'coin'); -o-
indicates that the word is a noun, -j-
indicates the
plural - most
english words ending in -us,
particularly those derived from
latin ,
replace the -us
suffix with -i to form plurals.
pluralize with -i.
- pluractionality, or
verbal number, is a
grammatical device that
indicates that the
action or
participants of a verb are
plural .
-
pluralism in
politics as
acknowledgment of
diversity , the
theory that
political power in
society does not lie with the
electorate but is
- most
declensions (of
nouns and pronouns) use -a as a
regular genitive plural ending, and all
declensions use -um as
their dative plural