Chinese English Japanese has no plural form

Chinese English Japanese has no plural form.

In English, the singular and plural forms of nouns ending in -ese (-ss) are the same.

Example sentences:

I am a Chinese.

They are Chinese.

Other cases of singular-plural homonymy:

1. Certain nouns that denote the names of animals. For example:

sheep (sheep), crab (crab), deer (deer), duck (duck), elk (elk), reindeer (reindeer)

2. Some military nouns have the same singular and plural form. For example:

aircraft (airplane), craft (boat, airplane), hovercraft (hovercraft), cannon (artillery)

3, some nouns that express quantity or measure. For example:

brace (a pair, a pair), hundred (hundred), thousands (thousand), million (million), billion (billion), etc., when they are preceded by a numeral or a quantity word, the plural of these nouns is usually the same form as the singular.

Rules for forming the plural form of countable nouns:

1. Generally, s is added at the end of the word, and it is pronounced /s/ after clear consonants and /z/ after turbulent consonants and vowels.

Example: cat-cats bag-bags boy-boys

2. Nouns ending in s, x, sh, ch, add es and read /iz/.

Example: class-classes ?box-boxes bus-buses brush-brushes

3. End with a consonant letter plus y, change y to i, then add es , pronounced /iz/.

Examples: baby-babies ?factory-factories ? library-libraries

4. Nouns ending in f, fe change f, fe to ves and read /vz/.

wife-wives knife-knives

wolf-wolves ? thief-thieves

5. Nouns ending in o add es for animate objects and s for inanimate objects, reading /z/.

Examples:

Inanimate:

photo-photos ?piano-pianos

radio-radios zoo-zoos

Animate:

potato-potatoes ? tomato-tomatoes

mango-mangoes ?hero-heroes

6. Irregularly varying, without regularity, to remember.

man-men ?woman-women

policeman-policemen