number
The number (plural: Numeri ; German: number, number ) is a form of counting in grammar to determine quantity values, i.e. to determine or differentiate the number .
There are the following numbers , depending on the language : Singular (singular), Dual [is] (two-number), Paral , Trial , Quadral , Paukal , Plural (plural), Distributive . For example, Classical Arabic , Slovene and Sorbian have dual forms for all nouns and verbs, but Hebrew only has pairs of body parts (hands, lips, etc.) and some temporal terms. Many non-European languages, such as Chinese , on the other hand, do not have a number as a grammar category - in this case the number is only expressed using numerals or quantities when required; if it is unambiguous, it is omitted.
In German grammar , a distinction is made between the singular (singular) and the plural (plural). Number forms form the following parts of speech here : noun , adjective , article , pronoun and verb .
There are also words that either only appear in the singular or only in the plural; these are called singular or plural .
Examples of the different numbers in German nouns in the nominative (see also German declension ):
| Singular | Plural | annotation |
|---|---|---|
| school | schools | |
| child | children | |
| wheel | bikes | Stem vowel changes, + ending |
| sofa | Sofas | |
| program | Programs | |
| Atlas | Atlases / atlases | Plural formation fluctuating |
| Apple | Apples | only the stem vowel changes |
| Teacher | Teacher | Singular and plural are the same |
| vacation | Plural tantum (no singular) | |
| noise | Singular tantum (no plural) |
See also
- Collective - expression that summarizes an indefinite number of similar things
- Substance name (continuative) - expression for non-countable things (material names )
- Counting - an act of determining the number of elements in a finite set of equivalent objects.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Snježana Kordić : The grammatical category of the number . In: Helmut Jachnow , Boris Norman, Adam E. Suprun (eds.): Quantity and grading as cognitive-semantic categories (= Slavic study books ). n. F., Vol. 12. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-447-04408-X , p. 63 ( bib.irb.hr [PDF; 1,2 MB ; accessed on June 1, 2016]).