What does the plural mean in English?

Plural number is a concept opposite to singular number, which refers to two or more countable nouns and is used to represent more than one object. In languages with the concept of even numbers, it means more than two nouns. In English, most nouns have plural numbers, but other parts of the language are lacking, that is, countable nouns have plural numbers and uncountable nouns have no plural numbers.

For example:

Egg is a countable noun, meaning egg; If it is an egg, it means multiple eggs.

Extended data

Some rules for changing singular into plural in English are as follows:

1, vowels and most consonants (or letter combinations) except s, z, x, SH and CH are directly added with -s, and the s after consonants is pronounced as /s/, and the s after vowels and voiced consonants is pronounced as /z/. Such as bags, biscuits and balls.

2. When singular nouns end with se, ze, ge and ce (the suffix consonant is /s, z,? ,? /and so on. ), read as /iz/ after adding s, such as vessel-vessels, edges-edges.

3. Irregular changes, such as cow-cow, child-child, man-man, mouse-mouse and lice.

4, unchanged, such as: deer-deer, sheep-sheep and collective noun people-people, Han-Han.

5. for words ending in f or fe, remove f or fe and add ve, such as scarf-scarf and knife.

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