What’s the Plural of Hypothesis?
The plural of hypothesis is hypotheses. Hypothesis is the singular noun form.
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The plural of hypothesis is hypotheses. Hypothesis is the singular noun form.
Syllabus comes from Latin, which has as its original plural noun form syllabi. Over time syllabuses has also come to be accepted as a plural of syllabus.
Synopsis as a plural is synopses (pronounced like sin-ops-ease). Synopsis is a singular noun.
The plural of wife is wives. Like other nouns that end in f/fe, wife uses -ves as a plural noun.
Both scarves and scarfs are correct ways to describe more than one scarf.
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.