Plural noun

A plural noun, often known simply as a plural, is a noun that has plural grammatical number.

English distinguishes between two types of singular noun based on meaning. Count plurals can be counted. Uncountable plurals cannot be counted.

Plurals may be regular plurals, which take plural {-s} ending. Irregular plurals do not follow this pattern and are irregular.

Examples of common English plural nouns include:

apples, bags, beds, blankets, boots, bottles, bowls, boxes, cameras, cars, cats, chairs, children, clothes, computers, cups, curtains, deer, dogs, doors, feet, fish, forks, geese, glasses, hats, houses, jeans, keys, knives, lamps, maps, men, mice, papers, people, pencils, phones, pillows, plants, plates, scarves, shoes, socks, spoons, tables, teeth, toothbrushes, toys, trees, watches, wallets, windows, women.

Two oddities:

• People is typically treated as the plural of person.
• Personnel has odd grammar.

Contrast singular noun.