• A double plural is a plural form to which an extra suffix has been added, mainly because the original plural suffix (or other variation) had become unproductive...
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  • languages, a plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, PL., or PL), is one of the values of the grammatical category of number. The plural of a noun typically...
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  • the plural with itself, to mean multiple different groups. This has been called the "plural of the plural", the plural plural, or the double plural. An...
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    W (redirect from Double U)
    double-u, plural double-ues. Double-u, whose name reflects stages in the letter's evolution when it was considered two of the same letter, a double U...
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    English plurals include the plural forms of English nouns and English determiners. This article discusses the variety of ways in which English plurals are...
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  • In Dutch, on the other hand, only 15 -er plurals (in the double-plural form -eren) still exist. These plurals do not show umlaut except in South Low Franconian...
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  • second-person plural, which can also be used to express formality (See T–V distinction), uses the suffixes -in/-ın/-ün/-un. The second person double-plural, reserved...
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  • inflection in common use: ox, whose plural is oxen, and child, whose plural is children, the latter being a double plural. Additionally, the words aurochs...
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    its phonetically full form, known as the status absolutus. In SBH, the plural–singular distinction between nouns is still apparent, whether they are cast...
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    A double entendre (plural double entendres) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which...
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    rather than as the plural, and the letter "s" is often added to the end of the word kolache to form "kolaches", which is a double plural. Originating as...
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  • — the -y is added to make it a regular plural in Polish due to declension (the word turns into double plural); Polish pierogi (pl.) → English pierogis...
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    The Arabic term al-mu'aqqibat (commonly encountered in the definite plural, Arabic معقبات "those who follow one upon another") is a term occurring in the...
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    Labrys (redirect from Double axe)
    Graecae 2.302a), the Lydian word for the double-bitted axe. In Greek it was called πέλεκυς (pélekys). The plural of labrys is labryes (λάβρυες). Plutarch...
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  • Interrogative pronouns rarely occur in the plural. The plural interrogative pronouns are the same as the plural relative pronouns. Sometimes spelled cūius...
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    G (redirect from Double-story g)
    (pronounced /ˈdʒiː/ ), plural gees. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the single-storey (sometimes "opentail") and the double-storey (sometimes...
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    A (redirect from Double-story a)
    and others worldwide. Its name in English is a (pronounced /ˈeɪ/ AY), plural aes. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which...
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    strong -(e)s plural form has survived into Modern English. The weak -(e)n form is now rare and used only in oxen and as part of a double plural, in children...
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    has the singular possessive man's /mænz/ and the plural possessive men's /mɛnz/ In the case of plural nouns ending in -s, the possessive is spelled by...
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    britches, differ from breeches. Breeches is a double plural known since c. 1205, from Old English brēc, the plural of brōc "garment for the legs and trunk"...
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  • Apostrophe (redirect from Plural possessive)
    Contraction (grammar) Genitive case Modifier letter double apostrophe Possessive case "Pease" as an old plural of "pea" is indeterminate: Lentils' and pease'[s]...
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    commonly used with the English plural ending -s in Canada and United States of America, pierogis, thus making it a "double plural". A similar situation happened...
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  • used in Modern Standard Arabic except by some speakers Technically a "double plural", sometimes employed for a small group of people. Only commonly employed...
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    -ers is used as a double plural instead of -eren, hence the plural of kind ("child") is kinders, not kinderen, although the plural kinders being used...
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    customer-clerk, colleagues) plural second-person siz is used almost exclusively. In very formal situations, double plural second-person sizler may refer...
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  • customer-clerk, colleagues) plural second-person siz is used almost exclusively. In very formal situations, double plural second-person sizler may refer...
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    can be either masculine or feminine plural, when it is feminine plural, the initial consonant of the noun is doubled. For example, consider ’a lista, which...
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    Doppelgänger (redirect from Double ganger)
    literally meaning "double-walker". The singular and plural forms are the same in German, but English writers usually prefer the plural "doppelgängers"....
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  • second-person plural for formal, and second-person double plural for very formal situations: gel (second-person singular, informal), gelin (second-person plural, formal)...
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  • term is the plural form euri (/ˈøːri/) (or even the double plural euries (/ˈøːris/)), a deliberate hypercorrect form referring to the plural of Dutch words...
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