Du has replaced the more formal second-person plural ni (equivalent to French vous) in almost all one-to-one interactions.
3The local currency, the Faroese króna (plural krónur), is equivalent to the Danish krone.
In other words, the effect of Turkey's accession to the EU on plural citizenship would be equivalent to convincing Germany to amend her nationality law.
Indeed many non-count nouns just are, in a certain limited sense, semantically plural—'clothing' is roughly equivalent to 'clothes', 'traffic' to 'moving vehicles', 'furniture' to 'pieces of furniture'; and so on.
"You was" had, in fact, taken the place of both "thou wast" and "thou wert" as a useful singular equivalent of the accepted plural "you were".
The dual number no longer exists as a separate category; corresponding to Sanskrit dvābhyām 'by two,' Prākrit has dohi (Pāli dvīhi), with the ending -hi equivalent to the instrumental plural -bhis of Old Indo-Aryan.
Terms of equivalent meaning to the plural terms in ChEBI can now easily be created in the GO.
Words in terms ending in the letter "s" were truncated (e.g. cirrhosi, anu), to produce equivalent terminology for many singular and plural terms.
Similarly, in Hindi, in which a person distinction is not made in the plural, ap kəhã ja rəhe hɛ̃, ap kya kər rəhe hɛ̃, equivalent in meaning to the Gujarati sentences, have the plural form rəhe hɛ̃.
IN JUNE Britain became the first non-Muslim country to issue sukuk, the Islamic equivalent of a bond (the word itself is the plural of sakk, which means contract or deed).
"Tipsters — plural, incidences — plural".
