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LESSON 4
Singular and Plural | E Pluribus Unum
4A. GRAMMAR In every language, we separate nouns into two large boxes. These boxes are named Singular and Plural. In English, to make a word plural add an -s or -es. Here are some simple examples.
Remember this list of words? In an earlier lesson, you organized them according to gender. Now, you will make them plural. For example:
actor -> actors cat -> cats
house -> houses tree -> trees
table -> tables hedgehog -> hedgehogs
chair -> chairs box -> boxes
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lilium silva fluvius stella oppidum
vocabulum puer puella arca sofa
amicus amica terra herba populus
MASCULINE FEMININE NEUTER
fluvius becomes fluvii
puer = pueri
populus = populi
puella = puellae oppidum = oppida
Singular and plural are often called number in languages.� Latin changes its endings to form the plural like this:
feminine -a changes to -ae: insulae, ninjae, pizzae, ursae, stellae, aquae
masculine -us changes to -i: snufflleupagi, cacti, hippopotami, ursi
neuter -um changes to -a: urania, plutonia, tabernacula, podia, oppida.