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A few things make its categorization as a grammatical number potentially problematic. Several languages allow the distributive to be added to mass nouns that are normally not considered to have number, [307] such as the Dagaare salema, gold, and salemɛɛ, "gold in different locations".
In English and many other languages, they are used to coin numerous series of words. For example: simplex, duplex (communication in only 1 direction at a time, in 2 directions simultaneously) unicycle, bicycle, tricycle (vehicle with 1 wheel, 2 wheels, 3 wheels) dyad, triad, tetrad (2 parts, 3 parts, 4 parts)
When the modifier is a vaguer expression of number, either pattern may be followed: several hundred (people) or several hundreds (of people). When the word has a specific meaning rather than being a simple expression of quantity, it is pluralized as an ordinary noun: Last season he scored eight hundreds [=scores of at least 100 runs in cricket].
This section illustrates several systems for naming large numbers, and shows how they can be extended past vigintillion. Traditional British usage assigned new names for each power of one million (the long scale ): 1,000,000 = 1 million ; 1,000,000 2 = 1 billion ; 1,000,000 3 = 1 trillion ; and so on.
Welsh has two systems of grammatical number, singular–plural and collective–singulative. Since the loss of the noun inflection system of earlier Celtic, plurals have become unpredictable and can be formed in several ways: by adding a suffix to the end of the word (most commonly -au), as in tad "father" and tadau "fathers", through vowel affection, as in bachgen "boy" and bechgyn "boys", or ...
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For this reason, several sources tend to differentiate them from Protestants and classify them together as Independents, Non-core Protestants etc. Also included in this category are the numerous, yet very similar non-denominational churches. Nonetheless, most sources combine their numbers to the Protestant tally, while others do not since these ...
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