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PLURALS

Regular nouns: (-s)

* To make regular nouns plural, add ‑s to the end.

Examples:

cat – cats

dog - dogs

house – houses 

Regular nouns: (-es) "hissing sound"

* If the singular noun ends in ‑s, -ss, -sh, -ch, -x, or -z, add ‑es to the end to make it plural.

Examples:

bus – buses

marsh – marshes

lunch – lunches

tax – taxes

blitz – blitzes

Letter -y:

* If a singular noun ends in ‑y and the letter before the -y is a consonant (medeklinker), change the ending to ‑ies to make the noun plural.

Examples:

baby - babies

city – cities

puppy – puppies

Spelling (-y)

If the singular noun ends in -y and the letter before the -y is a vowel (klinker), simply add an -s to make it plural.

Examples:

ray – rays

play - plays

boy – boys

toy - toys

Spelling change: (-f /-fe)

* If the noun ends with ‑f or ‑fe, the -f is often changed to ‑ve before adding the -s to form the plural version.

Examples:

life - lives

wife - wives

wolf - wolves

Letter -o:

If the singular noun ends in ‑o, preceded by a consonant, add ‑es to make it plural.

Examples:

hero - heroes

potato – potatoes

tomato – tomatoes

Exceptions:

photo – photos

piano – pianos

halo – halos

Irregular plurals 

child – children

goose – geese

man – men

woman – women

tooth – teeth

foot – feet

mouse – mice

person – people

ox - oxen

policeman - policemen

fish - fish 

spacecraft - spacecraft

louse – lice

Plural of:

1. shoe
2. shoes
3. schoenen
4. shoos

Plural of: tax

1. taxs
2. taxen
3. tax's
4. taxes

Plural of:

1. puppies
2. puppy's
3. puppys
4. puppen

Plural of: hero

1. heroes
2. hero's
3. heros
4. held

Plural of:

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

Plural of:

1. knife's
2. knifes
3. knives
4. kniven

Plural of:

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

Plural of: woman

1. womans
2. women
3. womanen
4. woman's

Plural of: mouse

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

Plural of: tooth

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

Plural of: party

1. parties
2. partys
3. party's
4. partyes