Plural
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Plural is a suffix (word ending) added to a word to show that the word means many (more than one). Its opposite is singular (one). English usually uses -s to mark the plural. For example, cat is singular, but cats is plural.
All European languages have plurals. Some languages also have duals (2), like Arabic, ancient Hebrew and Inuktitut. Other languages even have:
- nullar (no objects)
- trial (three objects)
- paucal (a few objects)
These different numbers will have different suffixes from the plural suffix.
Some languages do not have plural endings at all. Some of these are the East Asian languages of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. So native speakers of these languages can easily forget to use plural.