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Plural

In many languages, a plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, .mw-parser-output span.smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps-smaller{font-size:85%}pl., or pl), is one of the values of the grammatical category of number. The plural of a noun typically denotes a quantity greater than the default quantity represented by that…

Applications, Use in systems of grammatical number & Plural forms of other parts of speech

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Use in systems of grammatical number

TrialPaucalNumerical classifiersChineseJapanese
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Plural forms of other parts of speech

Grammatical agreementNoun phrasesCasePersonTense
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Formation of plurals

InflectionAffixesSuffixesAblautReduplication
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Nouns lacking plural or singular form

Uncountable nounsCollective nounsClothesPlurale tantumThe word "data"
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Use in systems of grammatical number

Formation of plurals

Plural forms of other parts of speech

Nouns lacking plural or singular form

Usage of the plural

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Plural

Nodes74
Edges73
Triples123
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027027
Components1

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Plural

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related to Further reading · 48
Plural → Ann Arbor, Berlin, Cambridge Textbooks, Cambridge University Press, China, Company, Corbett, Dan, English Language, Fries Festschrift, Geoffrey, George, George Allen, Grammar, Greville, Gruyter, Harper, Harper's English Grammar, Heath, Historical Principles
related to Formation of plurals · 18
Plural → Dutch, English, For, French, German, In, In English, In French, It, Just, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Some, Spanish, Suffixing, The, This
related to POS tagging · 13
Plural → CLAWS, In, NN2, NNL2, NNO2, NNS, NNT2, NNU2, NP2, NPS, Penn-Treebank, Proper, Resolution
related to Use in systems of grammatical number · 9
Plural → Chinese, For, However, In, Japanese, Languages, Mele-Fila, Some, The
related to Plural forms of other parts of speech · 6
Plural → Examples, French, In, In English, Such, Verbs
related to Usage of the plural · 6
Plural → English, In French, Russian, The, Thus, Treatments
related to External links · 3
Plural → Additional, GNU, Treatment
related to Nouns lacking plural or singular form · 3
Plural → Babylon, Certain, However
see also · 2
Plural → Double, Partitive
is a · 1
Plural → English word boys

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number singular languages also english nouns dual grammatical may used form numbers plurals forms two noun example one many pronouns

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Pluralis aEnglish word boys0.90text
bothinstance ofexcept for possible remnants of dual number in pronouns0.80text
eitherinstance ofexcept for possible remnants of dual number in pronouns0.80text
and in tendency for stock phrases to useinstance ofexcept for possible remnants of dual number in pronouns0.80text
Chineseinstance ofLanguages with numerical classifiers0.80text
Japanese lack any significant grammatical number at allinstance ofLanguages with numerical classifiers0.80text
though they are likely to have plural personal pronouns.Some languagesinstance ofLanguages with numerical classifiers0.80text
caseinstance ofto allow for simultaneous agreement within other categories0.80text
personinstance ofto allow for simultaneous agreement within other categories0.80text
genderinstance ofto allow for simultaneous agreement within other categories0.80text
as well as marking of categories belonging to the word itselfinstance ofto allow for simultaneous agreement within other categories0.80text
eatsinstance ofIn English a distinction is made in the third person between forms0.80text

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