plural

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Engleski

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation, grammar): pl.

Etymology

From Middle English plurelle, from Old French plurel (“plural”), borrowed from Latinski pluralis (“of or belonging to more than one, belonging to many”, adjective), from plus, pluris (“more”) + -alis.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /ˈplʊə.ɹəl/, /ˈplɔː.ɹəl/

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• Homophone: pleural

Adjective

plural (comparative more plural, superlative most plural)

1. Consisting of or containing more than one of something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlmen of Verona:

2. (comparable) Pluralistic.
   • 1987, Mircea Eliade, Charles J. Adams, editor, The Encyclopedia of religion, volume 3:

   • 2006, Suisheng Zhao, Debating political reform in China: rule of law vs. democratization, strana 29:

   • 2007, Lachelle Renee Hannickel, From cultural transgressions to literary transformations: ..., strana 195:

   • 2009, Pille Valk, Teenagers' perspectives on the role of religion in their lives, ..., strana 281:

   • 2011, Harald E. Braun; Edward Vallance, The Renaissance Conscience, strana 50:

Synonyms

• manifold
• multiple
• morefold
• several

Antonyms

• singular

Translations

more than one

• Albanian: shumës (sq)
• Armenian: հոգնակի (hy) (hognaki)
• Catalan: plural (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 複數／复数 (zh), 复数 (zh) (fùshù), 眾數／众数 (zh), 众数 (zh) (zhòngshù)

• Dutch: meervoudig (nl), meervoudige (nl)
• Esperanto: plurnombra
• Finnish: monikollinen (fi), monikko-
• French: pluriel (fr)
• Galician: plural (gl) m
• German: Plural-, pluralisch (de), plural (de), mehrfach (de), Mehrzahl-
• Greek: πληθυντικός (el) (plithyntikós)

  Ancient: πληθυντικός (plēthuntikós)

• Hebrew: לשון רבים‎ (lišon rabim)
• Icelandic: fleir-, marg-, fleirtölu-, í fleirtölu
• Ido: plurala (io)
• Indonesian: jamak (id)
• Irish: iolra (ga)
• Italian: plurale (it)
• Japanese: 複数 (ja) (ふくすう, fukusū)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 복수 (ko) (boksu)
• Latin: plūrālis
• Ligurian: plurâle
• Occitan: plural
• Polish: mnogi (pl)
• Portuguese: plural (pt)
• Romanian: plural (ro)
• Russian: mnóžestvennый (ru) (mnóžestvennyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: iolra
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: množinski, pluralni

  Roman: množinski (sh), pluralni (sh)

• Spanish: plural (es)
• Swedish: plural (sv), flertal (sv)
• Thai: พหูพจน์ (th)
• Turkish: çok (tr)
• Ukrainian: čiselьniй (čyselʹnyj)
• Volapük: plunumik (vo)
• Walloon: pluriyal (wa)

Noun

plural (plural plurals)

1. (gramatika, uncountable) The plural number.
   • 1895, William W. Goodwin, A Greek Grammar. Revised and enlarged., strana 34:

2. (gramatika, countable) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.

Usage notes

• Many languages have singular for one item and plural for more than one item. Some languages also have a dual form for two, a trial form for three, or a paucal form for several (e.g. Fijian). Other languages do not distinguish any of these categories.
• While the plural form generally refers to two or more persons or things, that is not always the case. The plural form is often used for zero persons or things, for fractional things in a quantity greater than one, and for people or things when the quantity is unknown.
• In English, the plural is most often formed simply by adding the letter "s" to the end of a noun, e.g. apple/apples. There are many exceptions, however, such as echo/echoes, mouse/mice, child/children, deer/deer (same word), etc.

Antonyms

• singular

Translations

the plural number

• Arabic: الْجَمْع‎ (ar) (al-jamʿ)
• Belarusian: mnóžnы lіk m (mnóžny lik)
• Bulgarian: mnóžestveno čisló n (mnóžestveno čisló)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 複數／复数 (zh), 复数 (zh) (fùshù), 眾數／众数 (zh), 众数 (zh) (zhòngshù)

• Esperanto: multenombro (eo)
• French: pluriel (fr) m
• Galician: plural (gl) m
• German: Mehrheit (de) f, Mehrzahl (de) f, Plural (de) m, Pluralis m
• Hungarian: többes szám (hu)
• Japanese: 複数 (ja) (ふくすう, fukusū)
• Korean: 복수 (ko) (boksu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: (numerus (la)) pluralis, numerus multitudinis, multitudo (la), pluralitas
• Macedonian: množina f (množina)
• Northern Sami: ^{(molim proverite)} máŋggaidlohku
• Portuguese: plural (pt) m
• Russian: mnóžestvennoe čisló (ru) n (mnóžestvennoje čisló)
• Slovak: množné číslo, plurál (sk)
• Slovene: množina (sl) f
• Tagalog: maramihan
• Ukrainian: množiná (uk) f (množyná)
• Uyghur: كۆپلۈك سان‎ (köplük san)
• Vietnamese: số nhiều (vi)
• Walloon: pluriyal (wa) m
• Yiddish: מערצאָל‎ f (mertsol)

word in plural form

• Albanian: shumës (sq)
• Arabic: جَمْع‎ (ar) (jamʿ)
• Armenian: հոգնակի թիվ (hy) (hognaki tʿiv), հոգնակի (hy) (hognaki)
• Belarusian: mnóžnы lіk m (mnóžny lik)
• Bulgarian: mnóžestveno čisló n (mnóžestveno čisló)
• Burmese: ဗဟုဝုစ်ကိန်း (my) (ba.hu.wuckin:)
• Catalan: plural (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 複數／复数 (zh), 复数 (zh) (fùshù), 眾數／众数 (zh), 众数 (zh) (zhòngshù)

• Czech: množné číslo (cs) n
• Dutch: meervoud (nl) n
• Estonian: mitmus (et)
• Faroese: fleirtal (fo) n
• Finnish: monikko (fi)
• French: pluriel (fr) m
• Galician: plural (gl) m
• Georgian: მრავლობითი (ka) (mravlobiti), მრავლობითი რიცხვი (mravlobiti ricxvi)
• German: Plural (de) m, Pluralform (de) f
• Greek: πληθυντικός (el) m (plithyntikós)
• Hindi: बहुवचन (hi) m (bahuvcan)
• Hungarian: többes számú alak
• Icelandic: fleirtala (is) f
• Indonesian: bentuk jamak
• Ingrian: monikko
• Italian: plurale (it) m
• Japanese: 複数形 (ja) (ふくすうけい, fukusūkei), 複数 (ja) (ふくすう, fukusū)
• Khmer: ពហុវចនៈ (pôhŏvchânéa’)
• Korean: 복수형 (boksuhyeong), 복수 (ko) (boksu)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Lao: ພະຫຸພົດ (pha hu phot)
• Latvian: daudzskaitlis m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Luxembourgish: Pluriel m, Méizuel (lb) f
• Macedonian: množina f (množina)
• Middle Persian: ws
• Mongolian: olon too (olon too)
• Navajo: díkwíjíltʼéego, naaki dóó baʼąą, tááʼ dóó baʼąą
• Norman: pluriel m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flertall (no) n

• Occitan: plural m
• Old English: maniġfeald
• Persian: جمع‎ (fa) (jam')
• Polish: liczba mnoga (pl) f
• Portuguese: plural (pt) m
• Romanian: plural (ro) n
• Russian: mnóžestvennoe čisló (ru) n (mnóžestvennoje čisló)
• Scottish Gaelic: iolra m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: množina f, plural m

  Roman: množina (sh) f, plural (sh) m

• Slovak: množné číslo n, plurál (sk) m
• Slovene: množina (sl) f
• Spanish: plural (es) m
• Swahili: wingi (sw)
• Swedish: plural (sv) n, pluralis (sv) n
• Tajik: ҷamъ (tg) (jamʾ)
• Telugu: బహువచనము (te) (bahuvacanamu)
• Thai: พหูพจน์ (th)
• Turkish: çoğul (tr), çokluk (tr)
• Ukrainian: množiná (uk) f (množyná)
• Vietnamese: số nhiều (vi)
• Volapük: plunum (vo)
• Votic: mõnikko
• Walloon: pluriyal (wa) m
• West Frisian: meartal (fy) n

See also

• (grammatical numbers) grammatical number; singular, dual, trial, quadral, paucal, plural ^{(Kategorija: en:Grammar)}

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latinski plūrālis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) MFA^(ključ): /pluˈɾal/

Adjective

1. plural

   Antonim: singular

Noun

1. plural

   Antonim: singular

Derived terms

• pluralisme
• pluralista

Related terms

• pluralitat

Further reading

• “plural” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “plural” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “plural” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “plural” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Francuski

Etymology

Borrowed from Latinski plūrālis.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /ply.ʁal/

Adjective

plural

1. plural, large

Related terms

• pluralisme
• pluraliste
• pluralité
• pluri-
• pluriel

Further reading

• “plural” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latinski plūrālis.

Noun

plural m or f (plural plurais)

1. plural

   Antonim: singular

Derived terms

• pluralismo
• pluralista

Related terms

• pluralidade

Further reading

• Šablon:R:DRAG

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Nemački

Etymology

Borrowed from Latinski plūrālis.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /pluˈʁaːl/

Adjective

plural (not comparable)

1. pluralistic

Declension

Declension of plural

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist plural	sie ist plural	es ist plural	sie sind plural
strong declension (without article)	nominative	pluraler	plurale	plurales	plurale
	genitive	pluralen	pluraler	pluralen	pluraler
	dative	pluralem	pluraler	pluralem	pluralen
	accusative	pluralen	plurale	plurales	plurale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der plurale	die plurale	das plurale	die pluralen
	genitive	des pluralen	der pluralen	des pluralen	der pluralen
	dative	dem pluralen	der pluralen	dem pluralen	den pluralen
	accusative	den pluralen	die plurale	das plurale	die pluralen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein pluraler	eine plurale	ein plurales	(keine) pluralen
	genitive	eines pluralen	einer pluralen	eines pluralen	(keiner) pluralen
	dative	einem pluralen	einer pluralen	einem pluralen	(keinen) pluralen
	accusative	einen pluralen	eine plurale	ein plurales	(keine) pluralen

Synonyms

• (pluralistic): pluralistisch

References

• plural u Duden na internetu

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Maltese

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /plʊˈrɐːl/

Noun

plural m

1. plural

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Middle English

Adjective

plural

1. Alternative form of plurelle

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Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latinski plūrālis.

Noun

1. plural

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Portugalski

Etymology

Borrowed from Latinski plūrālis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) MFA^(ključ): /pluˈɾaw/
• (Portugal) MFA^(ključ): /pluˈɾal/

Adjective

1. plural (consisting of more than one things)

   Antonim: singular

Noun

plural m (plural plurais)

1. (gramatika) plural (word referring to multiple things)

   Antonim: singular

Derived terms

• pluralismo
• pluralista

Related terms

• pluralidade

Further reading

• Šablon:R:Priberam

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latinski plūrālis.

Pronunciation

• Šablon:sh-IPA
• Hyphenation: plu‧ral

Noun

1. (uncountable) plural

Declension

Deklinacija od plural

	singular	plural
nominative	plùrāl	plurali
genitive	plurála	plurala
dative	pluralu	pluralima
accusative	plural	plurale
vocative	plurale	plurali
locative	pluralu	pluralima
instrumental	pluralom	pluralima

Synonyms

• množìna

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Španski

Etymology

Borrowed from Latinski plūrālis.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /pluˈɾal/

Adjective

plural (plural plurales)

1. plural, multiple

   Antonim: singular

Noun

plural m (plural plurales)

1. (gramatika) plural

   Antonim: singular

Derived terms

• pluralismo
• pluralista

Related terms

• pluralidad

Further reading

• “plural” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.