Pluralise (Verb)
Meaning
Mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural; "How do speakers pluralize nouns in Japanese?".
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- We need to pluralise the noun by adding -s to the end of the word.
- In some languages, you pluralise a noun by changing its form entirely.
- It can be difficult to pluralise nouns in Japanese because there is no direct equivalent of the English -s.
- The complexity of Arabic grammar is largely due to the need to pluralise nouns in multiple different ways.
- Languages such as Arabic appear to pluralise their deverbal nouns by means of a minor adjustment to the system of non-deverbal nouns.