singular

Grammatical number

EntityQ110786

Also known as singulars · sg · sing.

Subclass of: grammatical number

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In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature, in many languages, of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions. English and many other languages present number categories of singular or plural. Some languages also have a dual, trial and paucal number or other arrangements.

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Opposite of: plural
Short name: SG
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1.“Dept. of Linguistics | Resources | Glossing Rules”eva.mpg.de/lingua/resources/glossing-rules.phpRetrieved 2023-01-06
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Represents: uniqueness
Entry in abbreviations table: et. used by: The Database of Icelandic Morphology
Sg. used by: dexonline
Quantity: 1

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