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PLURALIZE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they pluralize ... he / she / it pluralizes
Past simple: pluralized
-ing form: pluralizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural
Example:
How do speakers pluralize nouns in Japanese?
Synonyms:
pluralise; pluralize
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "pluralize" is one way to...):
inflect (change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
pluralization (the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to)