What’s the Plural of Shelf?
Shelf plural is shelves. Most nouns that end in f/fe use ves as a plural.
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Shelf plural is shelves. Most nouns that end in f/fe use ves as a plural.
The plural of the Canis lupus, more commonly referred to as a wolf, is wolves. Wolves is the only plural form of wolf.
Foot plural is feet. Look tooth plural is teeth, foot is an irregular English plural noun that does not end in s/es.
The simple, sweet answer (much like the subject matter itself) is that the plural of loaf is loaves.
The short answer is that both hippopotamuses and hippopotami are correct plurals for this barrel-bodied and rotund mammal: the hippopotamus.
Aircraft is the same in both its singular and plural noun form. Both are aircraft.
A list of all the names of animal collective nouns, for your convenience and ease of perusal (also, they’re hilarious.)
Either shrimp or shrimps are accepted as the plural of these marine crustaceans and decapods. Shrimp without the -s is more commonly used as the plural form.
Thesis, which means “proposition”, and derives from Greek, is a singular noun. The plural of thesis is theses.
Analysis is singular; analyses is plural. Analysis comes from Greek, and uses -ses to show a pl. n. form.