When a singular noun ends with a ‘y’ after a consonant, we remove the ‘y’ and add ‘ies’. For example: City – Cities Lady – Ladies Story – Stories Consonants are all other letters except vowels (a, e, i, o, u).
If a noun ends with‘y’, the‘y’is changed into‘i’and‘es’is added to it for making its plural form. Examples: lady – ladies, country – countries. Plural forms for a few nouns are formeddifferently. Examples: wife – wives, knife – knives, leaf – leaves, man – men, toot...
When a noun ends in a consonant and -y we make the plural in -ies... 辅音+y结尾 lady > ladies; country > countries; party > parties …but if a noun ends in a vowel and -y we simply add -s: boy > boys; day > days; play > plays Some comm...
To navigate the site, probably the easiest way is to click on the “Starts with” menu with the beginning letter you’re looking for. For a noun that ends in a certain letter, first click to “Nouns ending in” link to be taken to a menu with A, B, C… through Z choices. ...
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Looking back at the examples used in this paper, we have seen that English happily zero-derives verbs, Russian adopts new verbal roots with or without a derivational suffix, and head-final languages prefer to use light verbs. As a result, each subtype ends up with more or fewer simple ...