List of plural forms
This list of Pluraliatantum is a compilation of the German language common Pluraliatantum . Some words have a singular form that is only used in technical language, e.g. B. Parents . Other words are limited to the plural only in one specific meaning, e.g. B. Smallpox .
General pluralism, mostly of German origin
- Superstructures (on a ship)
- Pumice ('pick')
- Dantes, Tantes (tokens)
- Fax
- Brothers
- Siblings, also in combinations: half-siblings
- tide
- Gugerschecken , Gugerschecken
- costs
- Lands
- People
- Liesen (northern German for 'pork fat')
- Lousy ('debt')
- Pugs (in the sense of ' female breast ')
- Muckis
- Packing
- Beeping
- Plünnen ('clothes')
- Beatings
- Schemes
- Schilten (Swiss for diamonds )
- Schmackes ('blows')
- Digress
- expenses
- Timing
- confused
Examples of pluralities in food
- Bambes (Vogtland potato pancakes)
- -potatoes: mashed potatoes , crushed potatoes , roasted potatoes
- Tripe
- mixed pickles
- French fries
- Pasta regularly forms a plural form: Dalken, Farfeln, Fettuccine , Macaroni , Schlutzkrapfen , Spätzle
Examples of pluralisms to designate periods of time
- Borrowings from the Roman calendar system or Roman festivals: Ides , Kalenden , Nonen , Saturnalia , Terminalien
- Holidays , also in combinations: summer holidays, company holidays , etc.
- overall lifetimes: formative years , Herrenjahre
- Millions of years
- -hours: business hours
- -weeks: honeymoon
- -days: dog days
Examples of regular loan word formations from Latin
Latin uses forms in the neuter plural to denote a whole. Numerous terms are derived from this that are plural in German, often from the neuter plural of nouned adjectives (-a). The rendering of the Latin adjective endings -alis (> -alia, -alien), - (a) bilis (> - (a) bilia, - (a) bilien) is particularly frequent.
- Alcoholic beverages
- assets
- Dissidia (points of contention)
- Diversa ('miscellaneous')
- Holidays , also in combinations: summer holidays, company holidays, etc.
- Funeralien ('funeral ceremonies')
- imponderables
- Intrusiva ('intrusive rock')
- Cameras ('political science, political and political economy')
- Kombustibilien (' Fuels ')
- Consumption tibiles ('consumer goods')
- Copies ('copying fees')
- Laudes (liturgical morning praise)
- Minutiae ('little things')
- Miscellanea, Miszellaneen ('small essays with various contents, especially in scientific journals')
- Music
- In kind
- liabilities
- Pastorals ('parish affairs')
- Posteriora
- Thermal baths (meaning as a Roman bathing establishment)
- Trivia
- Varia
- Vegetables ('plant foods')
Examples of other borrowed plural forms
- alimony
- Amouren ('love affairs')
- Bambes (Vogtland potato pancakes)
- Bramburi (Austrian joking)
- Chaps
- Cornflakes (the singular form cornflake is rare for practical reasons; see oat flakes)
- Data
- Diets (in the sense of 'expenses')
- Dramatis Personae ('Persons of a Drama')
- Drums
- effects
- Ephemera
- Finances (in the sense of 'financial assets')
- Fisimatents
- Frutti di Mare
- Marrying
- Kinkerlitzchen
- Knickerbocker
- Contents ('Directory of Cargo')
- Costs i. S. v. 'Expenses', also in combinations: travel costs, government costs, business costs, postage costs
- Krethi and Plethi ('common people')
- manners
- memoirs
- Merits
- Molest ('complaints')
- Mores
- Muckis
- News
- Notes (in the sense of 'notated music')
- Ottaverime
- Papers (in the sense of 'documents'): vehicle papers
- Posteriora
- public relations
- Relics 'legacy, bereaved'
- shorts
- Sperenzien
- Charges , also in combinations: discount charges
- Standing ovations
- Tropics
Examples of compound plural forms
Many words become pluralized by compounds:
- -work: track work, interior work, maintenance work
- -Expenditure: social expenditure, defense expenditure
- -outlook: weather forecast, future prospects
- Conditions: detention conditions, market conditions, weather conditions
- -legs: children's legs, knock knees
- Discomfort: stomach discomfort, difficulty swallowing
- - Payments: payments in kind, payments in kind, pensions
- -data: key data, characteristics, weather data
- -things: things of faith, things of love
- -Income: investment income, interest income
- -facilities: sanitary facilities
- -Colors: national colors, rainbow colors
- -money: disposition fees
- habits: consumption habits
- -grounds: fishing grounds, fishing grounds
- -forces: physical forces, naval forces
- - Funds: Funds, basic funds, subsidies, tax funds
- - Rights: paperback rights, TV rights
- -sachen: clothes, Maßsachen, trinkets , toys
- -difficulties: learning difficulties, communication difficulties
- -Games: Festival Chamber Games , Olympic Games
- -Boots: Seven Mile Boots
- -rays: heat rays, X-rays, X-rays
- -forces: naval forces, land forces
- - parts: pubic parts, soft parts
- -drops: heart drops, cough drops, stomach drops, nasal drops
- -Exercises: physical exercises
- -circumstances: living conditions, time circumstances
- -conditions: living conditions, financial circumstances
- losses: start-up losses, loss of people
- -products: edibles, housewares, tobacco products , spices, pasta , sugar confectionery
- -way: respiratory system, urinary tract
- -werke: public utilities
- -Tools: walking tools, chewing tools
- -interest: debit interest, delay interest
- -Tongues: angel tongues
Examples of plural forms for terms of biology and medicine
- The terms for taxa , i.e. genera, families and orders of living beings, are regularly plural: Bivalvia , Chiroptera , Chlamydia , Fungi , Rosaceae
- Numerous diseases are called plural. They are partly identical to the names of the corresponding viruses or bacteria: peeling, genital warts , measles , molest, smallpox , rubella , rubella , salmonella , chickenpox
- Hemoconia
Examples of plural forms in toponyms
Pluraliatums are regularly used to designate toponyms , especially when they form a group or a whole.
- Archipelagos: Aleutian Islands , Azores , Bahamas , Balearic Islands , Canaries , Lofoten , Moluccas , Philippines , Solomon Islands
- Mountains: Alps , Andes , Appalachian Mountains , Ardennes , Dolomites , Karawanken , Carpathian Mountains , Cordillera , Pyrenees , Rocky Mountains , Vosges
- Landscapes: Everglades , Highlands , Netherlands , Obere Gäue , Vierlande
- Confederations of states: United Arab Emirates , United States
- Constellations: Hyades , Hounds , Pleiades
- Dardanelles
Individual evidence
- ↑ Example for Cornflake : $ 1,350 for a Cornflake RP Online from March 22, 2008