2.1. A mouse or two mice? (irregular plurals)

Ejercicio Resuelto

Irregular plurals obviously don't follow any rules. However, we can list them in different types:

  • Some change the vowel, the ending or the whole word:

man-men, woman-women, child-children, person-people, tooth-teeth, foot-feet, goose-geese, mouse-mice, louse-lice

  • Some words don't change at all:

fish-fish, deer-deer, sheep-sheep, series-series, species-species

  • Some words that come from Latin have Latin endings:

phenomenon-phenomena, datum-data, thesis-theses, appendix-appendices

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For a list of irregular plurals, click here.

Practise these plurals on this website.

Finally, this video is a very good summary of both regular and irregular nouns.

 
 
 

Comprueba lo aprendido

Write either the singular or the plural form of these nouns. They can be regular or irregular.

1. - wives

2. computer -

3. person -

4. - series

5. fly -

6. - boxes

7. mouse -

8. echo -

9. - teeth

10. fish -

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The Welsh Language

In Wales, apart from English, there is another language spoken by many people: Welsh, which is a Celtic language. Officially, they have equal status, but the truth is people speak more English than Welsh nowadays, except in North wales, where Welsh is more popular..

Here are some examples of Welsh:

 

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ENGLISH

 WELSH

-Wales

-Welcome

-Good morning

-Cheers!

-Cymru

-Croeso

-Bore da

-Iechyd da!

 

 

 

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