1987, Mircea Eliade, Charles J. Adams, editor,The Encyclopedia of religion, volume 3:
Although the nation was far moreplural than Canada in the number of its Christian groups
2006, Suisheng Zhao,Debating political reform in China: rule of law vs. democratization, page29:
The Hong Kong and Singapore markets are way more "plural" than most Western economies, but they have not led to pluralistic politics.
2007, Lachelle Renee Hannickel,From cultural transgressions to literary transformations: ..., page195:
History is perhaps moreplural than traditionally imagined, leaving room for more groups to express their story.
2009, Pille Valk,Teenagers' perspectives on the role of religion in their lives, ..., page281:
Generally the girls tend to perceive their social world as somewhat moreplural than boys do. Several of these questions reveal that there are more boys (61%) than girls (39%) who 'do not know' about the religion of others
2011, Harald E. Braun with Edward Vallance,The Renaissance Conscience, page50:
Yet More's conscience was responding to a world just a little moreplural than the world he was born in
1895, William W. Goodwin,A Greek Grammar. Revised and enlarged., page34:
"There are three numbers; the singular, the dual, and theplural. [...] The dual is sometimes used to denote two objects, but even here theplural is more common."
(граматика,countable) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has adual form.
Usage notes
Many languages havesingular for one item and plural for more than one item. Some languages also have adual form for two, atrial form for three, or apaucal form for several (e.g.Fijian). Other languages do not distinguish any of these categories.
While the plural form generally refers to two or more persons or things, that is not always the case. The plural form is often used forzero persons or things, for fractional things in a quantity greater than one, and for people or things when the quantity is unknown.
In English, the plural is most often formed simply by adding the letter "s" to the end of a noun, e.g.apple/apples. There are many exceptions, however, such asecho/echoes,mouse/mice,child/children,deer/deer (same word), etc.
Sorani:Lua грешка in Модул:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. SeeWT:LOL andWT:LOL/E..
