Irregular Plural

Nouns ending “Y”: Change “y” for “ies”

Family Families

Party Parties

Country Countries

Fly Flies

Baby Babies

Library Libraries

Nouns ending in “f” and “fe” to make a plural of a word ending in “f”, change the “f” to a v
and add “es”

Knife knives

Life lives

Wife wives

Calf calves becerro

Leaf leaves hojas

Nouns ending in “o”: Plurals of words ending in “o” are usually made by adding “es”

Potato potatoes

Tomato tomatoes

Hero heroes

Torpedo torpedoes

Veto vetoes veto

Nouns that change vowels: Many English words become plural by changing their vowels, such
as “oo” to “ee” or “an” to “en”

Foot feet

Tooth teeth

Goose geese ganzo

Man men

Woman women
Words ending in “um” shed their “um” and replace it with “a” to form a plural

Datum data

Memorandum memoranda

Bacterium bacteria

Stratum strata

Curriculum curricula (also curriculum)

Nouns that don’t change

Sheep

Fish

Deer Ciervo

Moose Alce

Swine Canalla

Buffalo

Shrimp

Trout Trucha, una trufa una truchon!

Nouns with an is ending can be made plural by changing “is” to “es”

Analysis analyses

Crisis crises

Thesis theses

Irregular nouns that change substantially

Mouse mise

Die dice dado

Ox oxen buey

Child children

Person people

Penny pence centavo

Homework #1

Write down two sentence using each word of “Irregular Plurals”. Eeverything by hand.