pluralizing
present participle ofpluralize
pluralize
verb[T]
(UKusuallypluralise)uk/ˈplʊə.rəl.aɪz/us/ˈplʊr.əl.aɪz/to make a word into aformthatexpressesmore than one:
Certainnouns, such as "guilt", cannot be pluralized.
Linguistics: grammatical terms
- ablative
- apposition
- appositive
- appositively
- attributively
- countable
- decline
- demonstrative
- feminine
- intensifier
- particle
- premodifier
- qualify
- regularity
- singular
- stative
- syntactic
- syntactically
- the first person
- uncountable
Examplesofpluralizing
pluralizing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
These often have the effect ofpluralizingarguments, but ' distributive ' is a more accurate description.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Problematizing andpluralizing'sociocultural theory'.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There are basically two archaicpluralizingstrategies, called external and internal plural.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Nepali distinguishes two numbers, with a commonpluralizingsuffix for nouns in "-har" (e.g. "mitra" friend: "mitrahar" friends).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Pluralizingnouns consists of understanding that some nouns are regular and -s denotes more than one, but also understanding how to apply different rules to irregular nouns.
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