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  2. English plurals - Wikipedia

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    Some words borrowed from Inuktitut and related languages spoken by the Inuit in Canada, Greenland and Alaska, retain the original plurals. The word Inuit itself is the plural form. Canadian English also borrows Inuktitut singular Inuk, [20] which is uncommon in English outside Canada.

  3. Plural form of words ending in -us - Wikipedia

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    Most Prescriptivists consider these forms incorrect, but descriptivists may simply describe them as a natural evolution of language; some prescriptivists do consider some such forms correct (e.g. octopi as the plural of octopus being analogous to polypi as the plural of polypus). Some English words of Latin origin do not commonly take the Latin ...

  4. Plural - Wikipedia

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    In many languages, words other than nouns may take plural forms, these being used by way of grammatical agreement with plural nouns (or noun phrases). Such a word may in fact have a number of plural forms, to allow for simultaneous agreement within other categories such as case, person and gender, as well as marking of categories belonging to ...

  5. Morphology (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The generation of the English plural dogs from dog is an inflectional rule, and compound phrases and words like dog catcher or dishwasher are examples of word formation. Informally, word formation rules form "new" words (more accurately, new lexemes), and inflection rules yield variant forms of the "same" word (lexeme).

  6. Grammatical number - Wikipedia

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    The collective presents similar issues as the distributive in its potential classification as grammatical number, including the fact that some languages allow both collective and plural markers on the same words. Adding a collective to a plural word does not change the number of referents, only how those referents are conceptualized. [315]

  7. Declension - Wikipedia

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    Both words 'Rāma Rameśa' are individually declined as 'rāmaṃ rameśaṃ. Rāmeṇābhihatā niśācaracamū Instrumental Rāma, by whose hands are the armies of demons annhiliated. Rāmeṇa is the declension that underwent sandhi with the word abhihatā. Rāmāya tasmai namaḥ Dative I bow to that Rāma.

  8. Why OPEC's grip on oil markets will continue to weaken in 2025

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    OPEC+ faces a major oil oversupply in 2025, challenging production increases. The coalition has tried to boost oil prices by holding back output. Instead, members are ceding control to non-OPEC ...

  9. Grammatical conjugation - Wikipedia

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    Verbs in written French exhibit more intensive agreement morphology than English verbs: je suis (I am), tu es ("you are", singular informal), elle est (she is), nous sommes (we are), vous êtes ("you are", plural), ils sont (they are). Historically, English used to have a similar verbal paradigm.