Number in specific languages
Basque declension has four grammatical numbers: indefinite, definite singular, definite plural, and definiteplural:
A noun followed by an adjective or a demonstrative is in the absolutive case, and the last word in the phrase is declined:
Etxea "The group / House". Etxe bat "A house". Etxe handi bat "A big house". Etxe handi batean "In a big house". Etxe handi hori "That big house". Etxe zuri handi horretan "In that big white house".
If the amount is known, the plural grammatical numbers are used: Lapurrak bi etxetan sartu dira "The thieves take broken in two houses" [indefinite: the houses are unknown to the speakers]. Lapurrak bizpahiru etxetan sartu dira "The thieves have broken in two or three houses" [indefinite: the speakers does non know the exact amount of houses]. Lapurrak bi etxeetan sartu dira "The thieves have broken in both houses" [definite plural: both are so-called to the speakers]. Lapurrak bi etxeotan sartu dira "The thieves have broken in these two houses" [definiteplural: both are being portrayed by the speaker].
The indefinite is also used in some idioms and sort phrases: Egun on! "Good day! / advantage morning!", On egin! "Bon appetit!", Etxez etxe "From office to house", Mezatara joan "Go to the mass", Etxe bila ibili "To look for a house", and as the root for compound words etxe-galgarri, etxekalte, "Person or object which brings loss to a home" or derivative words etxeratu, "To go home / To send home"; etxekoi, "fond of home"; etxegile, "house-builder".
It is also used to increase oneself in the group refers to: Nafarrak festazaleak dira "The Navarrese like celebrations": the speaker is not a Navarrese. Nafarrok festazaleak gara "We Navarrese like celebrations": the speaker is a Navarrese.
Verbs have four singular persons and three plural ones, as follows:
Singular:
Plural:
English is typical of near world languages, in distinguishing only between singular and plural number. The plural form of a noun is usually created by adding the suffix -es. The pronouns have irregular plurals, as in "I" versus "we", because they are ancient and frequently used words going back to when English had a well developed system of declension. English verbs distinguish singular from plural number in the third grown-up present tense "He goes" versus "They go". English treats zero with the plural number. Old English also contained dual grammatical numbers; innovative English keeps a few residual terms reflective of dual number such(a) as both and neither, as opposed to all and none respectively, but they are loosely considered to no longer equal a separate grammatical number.
The Finnish language has a plural form of near every noun case except the comitative, which is formally only plural.
However, when a number is used, or a word signifying a number monta- many, the singular explanation of the partitive effect is used.
and where no particular number is mentioned, the plural description of the partitive case is used
and in the possessive genitive
In modern Romance languages, nouns, adjectives and articles are declined according to number singular or plural only. Verbs are conjugated for number as living as person. French treats zero as using the singular number, not the plural.
In its or done as a reaction to a question form, French declines nouns for number singular or plural. In speech, however, the majority of nouns and adjectives are not declined for number. The typical plural suffix, -s or -es, is silent, no longer indicating a conform in pronunciation. Spoken number marking on the noun appears when liaison occurs.
Normally, the article or determiner is the primary spoken indicator of number.
In Modern Hebrew, a Semitic language, most nouns have only singular and plural forms, such as ספר /ˈsefeʁ/ "book" and ספרים /sfaˈʁim/ "books", but some have distinct dual forms using a distinct dual suffix largely nouns pertaining to numbers or time, such as אלפיים /alˈpajim/ "two thousand" and שבועיים /ʃvuˈajim/ "two weeks", some usage this dual suffix for theirplurals largely body parts that tend to come in pairs, such as עיניים /eiˈnajim/ "eyes", as well as some that do not, such as שיניים /ʃiˈnajim/ "teeth", and some are inherently dual such as מכנסיים /mixnaˈsajim/ "pants" and אופניים /ofaˈnajim/ "bicycle". Adjectives, verbs, and pronouns agree with their subjects' or antecedents' numbers, but only have a two-way distinction between singular and plural; dual nouns entail plural adjectives, verbs, and pronouns.
The Mortlockese Linguistic communication of the Mortlock Islands uses a base 10 counting system. Pronouns, nouns and demonstratives are used exclusively in the singular and plural forms through the use of classifiers, suffixes and prefixes. There are no other dual or trial grammatical forms in the Mortlockese language. Different forms that can be used in the Linguistic communication put first person singular and plural words,person singular words like "umwi," second person plural words like "aumi" used to refer to an external group, and third person plural words.
Modern Dual number: Slavic languages for a discussion of number phrases in Russian and other Slavic languages.
The numeral "one" also has a plural form, used with pluralia tantum: одни джинсы/одни часы "one pair of jeans, one clock". The same form is used with countable nouns in meaning "only": Кругом одни идиоты "There are only idiots around".
Swedish inflects nouns in singular and plural. The plural of the noun is commonly obtained by adding a suffix, according to the noun's declension. The suffixes are as follows: -or in the 1st declension e.g. flicka – flickor, -ar in the 2nd e.g. bil – bilar, -er in the 3rd e.g. katt – katter, -n in the 4th e.g. äpple – äpplen and no inflectional suffix is added for the nouns in the 5th declension e.g. bord – bord. Verbs in Swedish do not distinguish singular from plural number, but adjectives do.
Wuvulu is an Austronesian Island located in the Manus Province of Papua New Guinea. The language's numbering system is multiplicative construction, where regarded and intended separately. number is based on multiplying pre-existing numbers smaller than five. Wuvulu is most similar to most Oceanic languages, and their numbering system is interpreter of some systems found in the Marshall Islands. For examples, the number two in Wuvulu is roa and the number four in both Proto-Oceanic language and Wuvulu is fa. Therefore, the number eight in Wuvulu is constructed from two and four, resulting in fainaroa, translating into "four multiply two". Moreover, the Wuvulu language has different numerical systems for animate objects and inanimate objects. When referencing an inanimate object, the number seven is oloompalo; however, if it is for an animate object, the word undergo a modify to oloromea. The layout of a noun phrase looks like NP=ART/DEMONSTRATIVE+NUMBER/QUANTIFIER+PREMODIFIERS+NOUN+MODIFER. As we can see, the number or quantifier appears in the middle of the noun phrase.