Used in a Sentence

pluralization

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pluralization.

Editorial note

We could also embark on pluralization vs apostrophe too, it's a noble cause, but we all know what people mean.

Examples17
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The act of making plural.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of pluralization gathered in one view.

noun

The act of making plural.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pluralization.

noun

The act of making plural.

Example sentences

1

We could also embark on pluralization vs apostrophe too, it's a noble cause, but we all know what people mean.

2

There are a few NPM libraries (make-plural, cldr, probably others) which will help you write those pluralization functions.

3

Eh, English has a long history of pedants insisting that the original pluralization of loanwords be used.

4

Subject/verb pluralization disagreement and odd grammatical structure (to a native English speaker, many of the sentences sound awkward) are the biggest issues.

5

Interesting to see the pluralization rules for so many languages expressed so succinctly.

6

I don't think I've ever heard anyone attach an 's' to 'kanji' for pluralization when speaking English.

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We currently only allow for pluralization based on one variable per phrase.

8

For those confused (like I was at first); judging by the post, this is I18n pluralization in Ruby on Rails.

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Here's how we handle pluralization on our backend (all abstracted away from the user): For a language with 2 plural forms (ie.

10

In other languages, though, the pluralization rules get rather complicated[1].

11

With all the convenient pluralization and automatic field/method naming.

12

UK 'in denial' over pluralization of the word 'math'.

Quote examples

1

For example, "kine" has been replaced by "cows" so that it better conforms to expected pluralization practices.

2

Pluralization in an article like this implies a "few".

3

Though i18n-js does let you write your own pluralizations rules (taken from the readme), while supporting zero/one/many out of the box: I18n.pluralization["ru"] = function (count) { var key = count % 10 == 1 && count % 100!= 11?

4

The MIT school says "We should solve the problem and make things easy for the programmer, goshdarnit", and so you get things like the STL (where every algorithm is built for maximum generality at no performance cost) or Rails's auto-pluralization of database tables.

Proper noun examples

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Pluralization is really old, gnu gettext solve this long time ago (1995).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use pluralization in a sentence?

We could also embark on pluralization vs apostrophe too, it's a noble cause, but we all know what people mean.

What does pluralization mean?

The act of making plural.

What part of speech is pluralization?

pluralization is commonly used as noun.