plural forms

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Plural forms are the versions of nouns, pronouns, and verbs that indicate more than one: cats, they, are.

English typically forms noun plurals by adding -s or -es, though irregular plurals abound: children, mice, phenomena.

The term also applies to verb conjugations that agree with plural subjects: The dogs bark versus The dog barks.

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grammatical number

plural formssingular forms

Non-plural word versions

singular · singulars · singular nouns · collective nouns

morphological complexity

plural formslemmas

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form, forms, plural, plurality

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