plural
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- adjective
- /ˈplʊrəl/
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plural
- In English, the word 'children' is the plural form of 'child'.
- plural noun
- plural form
- plural pronouns
And now notice that that's plural too, right?
- And now notice that that's plural too, right?
- So there are as many unique sexualities, plural, as there are people.
- And McKee calls those plural protagonist movies.
- The United States are always a plural verb.
- She'll stay in her dorm, get to know her roommates, plural.
- And the word God is Elohim is plural.
- So he says, who's singular or plural invented twon?
- In fact, I use mine, plural, very often, all day.
- So if you hear me, I I'm using the plural estrogens.
Examples
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It's the plural form of the letter "z".
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When you use the plural pronoun 'they', you are referring to more than one person.
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You is actually the second person plural in English.
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In grammar, the first and second persons combine to form the first person plural: plus you equals we.
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Children might assume the stem word is already plural because it ends in a sibilant.
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So seraphim is like the plural of seraph.
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Justin Torres's novel We the Animals begins with a plural first person narrator.
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Acoustic analysis determined the presence or absence of the plural morpheme and its duration.
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Some nouns change spelling when forming the plural, like 'mouse' which becomes 'mice'.
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Etymology
Plural comes from the Latin word pluralis, which in turn comes from plus meaning 'more'. So as an adjective, plural describes something that is 'more than one'.