Through its presence or absence, the plural ending shows distinctions of number.

However, you probably recognize that underneath this, they represent the same plural ending.

Although most words exhibiting it are no longer used, a common plural ending was -is.

There was also an alternative accusative plural ending that combined both.

So we need to use the greek plural ending which would make it 'octopodes.'"

Like articles, adjectives use the same plural endings for all three genders.

The plural ending will not be attached twice to the same word; therefore ambiguity is possible:

Despite many plural endings changing the number of syllables in the nouns, the word stress does not generally shift.

The second and third person plural endings are sometimes -eth as in Chaucerian English.

This irregular plural ending may occur when the word comes directly into English from Latin rather than via French.

Plural endings are used less frequently, for example huser (houses) has become hus, which is correct Bokmål.

(The indefinite kérnék forms still coincide, just like the 1st and 2nd person plural endings.)

Adjuvilo uses as plural ending -s and not -i as Ido.

In poetry, -um may be substituted for -ōrum as the genitive plural ending.

The dual and strong plural endings were likely much like the Arabic forms given above at one point, with only the objective-case forms ultimately surviving.

A reduplicated plural is a grammatical form achieved by the superfluous use of a second plural ending.

On the other hand, foreign words that already end in s,x or z - all legitimate plural endings in French - are now to remain invariable.

Ar, -arasi, -aras are plural endings of different cases.

In such East Asian languages as Chinese, Korean and Japanese, there is zero plural ending.

Neuter definitive plural ending is "-a".

The informal plural "silär" originated as a contraction of "sizlär", which uses a regular plural ending.

In some consonant stem verbs, an older, shorter form of the third person plural ending exists, which is just -o instead of -ejo.

In the last example, the first-person singular suffix of possession comes before the plural ending; this is an exception to the order of suffixes given above.

The necessity for forming different Hebrew conjugations, moods, tenses, as well as dual and plural endings of nouns (pp.

The plural ending is optional (i.e. only used when the speaker wishes to emphasise the fact that the noun is plural).