Re: QUESTION: types of plurals, few/many
| From: | Irina Rempt <irina@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 20, 2002, 8:55 |
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On Thursday 20 June 2002 10:12, Tom Wier wrote:
> So, presumably, you could have one word for "policeman", of which
> the singular would signify the same as English "policeman", the
> plural "policemen", and the collective "the police".
It works like that in Ilaini: _daysen_ "drop of water, raindrop",
_daysin_, genitive _daysenin_ "drops of water, individual raindrops",
_daysin_, genitive _daysinin_ "rain".
The nominative collective plural is identical to the the normal plural,
but the normal plural has -e- in all other cases, whereas the
collective keeps -i-.
Irina
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