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    Nouns/ plural form

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    Nouns/ plural form
    Message from farshid posted on 17-04-2021 at 19:09:23 (D | E | F)
    Hello everyone
    If a singular noun ends with 'f' or 'fe', when we want to use the plural form, we often change 'f' or 'fe' into 've' before adding s to the end.
    For example: wife > wives, Half > halves. But in some nouns this rule doesn't work and those nouns don't respect the above rule.
    For example: roof > roofs, belief > beliefs.
    Question: Do those nouns obey a specific rule (involving vowels in the noun)or not?
    If not, the way that we have to learn the plural form of them is to memorize them.

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    Edited by lucile83 on 17-04-2021 21:20
    grey + no red in the forum



    Re: Nouns/ plural form from sherry48, posted on 17-04-2021 at 20:45:11 (D | E)
    Hello Farshid.
    Unfortunately, there is no simple rule--you have to memorize the exceptions.
    Sherry

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    Edited by sherry48 on 18-04-2021 14:09

    Here are some charts that list some exceptions. Link





    Re: Nouns/ plural form from mah, posted on 29-04-2021 at 17:57:34 (D | E)
    Hello . Yes! I think we are forced to memorize them. There is no specific rule.
    The best



    Re: Nouns/ plural form from frafra, posted on 03-05-2021 at 20:50:50 (D | E)
    hello, it's a problem for me as well but since there is a specific rule the best way to learn the rules is read as much as we can to memorise new words




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