Plural of nouns

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Plural of nouns

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one pepper
two ...

1. peppers
2. pepperes
3. pepper's
4. pepper

General rule

+s

one olive
thirty ...

1. olivees
2. olives
3. olive's
4. oliven

one peach
two ...

one box
twenty ...

nouns that end in a hissing sound

+ es

one superhero
ten ...

1. superheroes
2. superhero's
3. superheros
4. superheroos

1 kilo
100 ...

1. kilo's
2. kiloes
3. kiloz
4. kilos

one potato
three ...

one tomato
three ...

one volcano
three ...

nouns that end in -o

+ s OR + es

one knife
four ...

one scarf
six ...

nouns that end in -f

> f/fe > ves

one strawberry
hundreds of ...

one toy
six ...

1. toy's
2. toies
3. toyz
4. toys

one butterfly
two ...

one boy
three ...

1. boyz
2. boy's
3. boys
4. boies

nouns that end in consonant +y

> y > ies

one man
two ...

1. mans
2. mens
3. men
4. mannen

one woman
four ...

1. womans
2. women
3. womens
4. womennen

one child
six ...

1. childs
2. childrens
3. children
4. child's

one tooth
many ...

1. teeth
2. tooths
3. teeths
4. tooth's

one foot
two ...

1. foots
2. foot's
3. feets
4. feet

one mouse
one hundred ...

1. mouses
2. mice
3. mousen
4. mouse's

one fish
many ...

1. fish's
2. fish
3. fishes
4. fishen

one sheep
three ...

1. sheep
2. sheeps
3. sheep's
4. shoop

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