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PLURALIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pluralize mean?
• PLURALIZE (verb)
The verb PLURALIZE has 1 sense:
1. mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural
Familiarity information: PLURALIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they pluralize ... he / she / it pluralizes
Past simple: pluralized
Past participle: pluralized
-ing form: pluralizing
... he / she / it pluralizes Past simple: pluralized
Past participle: pluralized
-ing form: pluralizing
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 "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)
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