Nouns - plural forms - part III
- Nouns - only singular form:
advice, coal, information, property, strength, business, progress, furniture
(It was business as usual. But: these bits of information, two pieces of furniture; advice = adviezen, one piece of advice = advies)
- Nouns - only plural form:
environs, surroundings, oats, riches, stairs, wages, contents, thanks
(These surroundings are beautiful! Many thanks! These stairs are too steep!)
- Nouns of tools and clothing consisting of equal parts
jeans, pants, trousers, scissors, pyjamas, slacks (nice pair of pants for work!), goggles, glasses, scales
(one pair of jeans, one pair or two pairs of scissors, two pairs of swimming trunks)