plural

Такође погледајте: Plural и plurál

English[уреди]

Википедија има чланак на:

plural

Википедија

Alternative forms[уреди]

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Etymology[уреди]

From Средњи Енглески plurelle, from Стари Француски plurel (“plural”), borrowed from Латински pluralis (“of or belonging to more than one, belonging to many”, adjective), from plus, pluris (“more”) + -alis.

Pronunciation[уреди]

МФА^(кључ): /ˈplʊə.ɹəl/, /ˈplɔː.ɹəl/
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Homophone: pleural

Adjective[уреди]

plural (comparative more plural, superlative most plural)

Consisting of or containing more than one of something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlmen of Verona:
  Than plural faith which is too much by one: Thou counterfeit to thy true friend!
(comparable) Pluralistic.
- 1987, Mircea Eliade, Charles J. Adams, editor, The Encyclopedia of religion, volume 3:
  Although the nation was far more plural than Canada in the number of its Christian groups
- 2006, Suisheng Zhao, Debating political reform in China: rule of law vs. democratization, strana 29:
  The Hong Kong and Singapore markets are way more "plural" than most Western economies, but they have not led to pluralistic politics.
- 2007, Lachelle Renee Hannickel, From cultural transgressions to literary transformations: ..., strana 195:
  History is perhaps more plural than traditionally imagined, leaving room for more groups to express their story.
- 2009, Pille Valk, Teenagers' perspectives on the role of religion in their lives, ..., strana 281:
  Generally the girls tend to perceive their social world as somewhat more plural than boys do. Several of these questions reveal that there are more boys (61%) than girls (39%) who 'do not know' about the religion of others
- 2011, Harald E. Braun; Edward Vallance, The Renaissance Conscience, strana 50:
  Yet More's conscience was responding to a world just a little more plural than the world he was born in

Synonyms[уреди]

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Translations[уреди]

more than one

Albanian: shumës (sq)

Armenian: հոգնակի (hy) (hognaki)

Catalan: plural (ca)

Chinese:

Mandarin: 複數 (zh), 复数 (zh) (fùshù), 眾數 (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)

Korean: 복수 (ko) (boksu)

Latin: plūrālis

Ligurian: plurâle

Occitan: plural

Polish: mnogi (pl)

Portuguese: plural (pt)

Romanian: plural (ro)

Russian: мно́жественный (ru) (mnóžestvennyj)

Scottish Gaelic: iolra

Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: множински, плурални

Roman: množinski (sh), pluralni (sh)

Spanish: plural (es)

Swedish: plural (sv), flertal (sv)

Thai: พหูพจน์ (th)

Turkish: çok (tr)

Ukrainian: чисельний (čyselʹnyj)

Volapük: plunumik (vo)

Walloon: pluriyal (wa)

Noun[уреди]

plural (plural plurals)

(граматика, uncountable) The plural number.
- 1895, William W. Goodwin, A Greek Grammar. Revised and enlarged., strana 34:
  "There are three numbers; the singular, the dual, and the plural. [...] The dual is sometimes used to denote two objects, but even here the plural is more common."
(граматика, 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[уреди]

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.