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PLURALISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pluralise mean?
• PLURALISE (verb)
The verb PLURALISE has 1 sense:
1. mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural
Familiarity information: PLURALISE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they pluralise ... he / she / it pluralises
Past simple: pluralised
Past participle: pluralised
-ing form: pluralising
... he / she / it pluralises Past simple: pluralised
Past participle: pluralised
-ing form: pluralising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
pluralise; pluralize
Context example:
How do speakers pluralize nouns in Japanese?
Hypernyms (to "pluralise" 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:
pluralisation (the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to)
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