Concetti Chiave
- In English, plurals are typically formed by adding -s to nouns, with exceptions for nouns ending in -y, -f, -fe, and -o.
- Nouns ending in -y after a consonant change to -ies in the plural, such as baby/babies and city/cities.
- Nouns ending in -f or -fe often change to -ves in the plural, like wife/wives and shelf/shelves.
- Irregular plurals do not follow standard rules, with examples including child/children, foot/feet, and mouse/mice.
- Greek and Latin origin nouns retain their original plural forms, examples include analysis/analyses and phenomenon/phenomena.
How is the plural formed in the English language?
Solitamente si aggiunge la -s ai sostantivi per formare il loro plurale.Ad esempio: car/cars, student/students.
Ci sono però delle eccezioni:
-i nomi che finiscono per -y preceduti da consonante hanno il plurale in -ies.
Esempi:
baby/babies (All the babies in the nursery started to cry when the new baby was entered in his crib so the nurse started to cuddle all of them)
city/cities (One of my favourite cities is London but I will be willing to visit the English costal city that you were talking me about)
-i nomi che finiscono in -f o -fe hanno il plurale in -ves.
Esempi:
wife/wives (Sauro’s wife is talking with his friend’s wives about the surprise party she wanted to organize for her parents anniversary and she wanted all of them involved)
shelf/shelves (With all the wood that we have we can built only one shelf but if we want to be more sure we could buy more and built more shelves)
-i nomi che terminano in -o hanno il plurale in -es.
Esempio:
potato/potatoes (I wanted to bought one potato but the greengrocer gifted me with two more potatoes because it was the end of the day)
hero/heroes (My little son knows that not all the heroes does not wear a cape but he is obsessed with that hero from comics that shoot green flashes from his eyes)
Names with irregular plural forms
Il plurale dei nomi irregolari in inglese non segue nessuna regola. Ecco alcuni plurali di nomi irregolari:
Child-children
Disco-discos
Euro-euros (I thought that I had a discount of some euros on that shoes if I had brought with me a friend in the shop but I found out that that promotion was expired some days ago and it was not applied even one euro discount)
Foot-feet
Goose-geese
Louse-lice
Man-men
Mouse-mice (I saw online a girl that filmed herself while she was taking care of her white cute mice and she tempted me to buy one mouse for myself but then I remembered how clumsy I am)
Ox-oxen
Penny-pence (il plurale pennies è usato per indicare le monete da un penny. Ad esempio: she has got five pennies = lei ha cinque monete da un penny).
Person-people (il plurale è usato solo nel linguaggio giuridico e nelle istruzioni. Ad esempio: there are seven people in the lift now and the maximum load is five persons= adesso ci sono sette persone nell'ascensore e la portata massima è di sei persone).
Photo-photos
Tooth-teeth
Woman-women
Plural forms of Greek and Latin names
I nomi di origine greca o latina mantengono i loro plurali.Ecco alcuni esempi:
Analysis-analyses
Basis-bases
Crisis-crises
Datum-data
Medium-media
Oasis-oases
Phenomenon-phenomena (According to the scientists all of these phenomena are linked to only one phenomenon that was underestimated all this time: how people react to the news)
Thesis-theses (I finished to write my thesis but when I had given it to my supervisor for the finals corrections he told me that I had to wait some time because he needed to read other different theses before mine)
Domande da interrogazione
- How is the plural typically formed in the English language?
The plural is usually formed by adding -s to nouns, such as in "car/cars" and "student/students."
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