Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Ray Brown :
>
>
>> Of course, as Shreyas rightly observes, spoken French does just this,
>> with
>> the additional funnction
>> of definiteness ~ indefiniteness, cf. the word for "school":
>> SING. PLURAL
>> DEFINITE: /lekOl/ /lezekOl/
>> INDEFINITE: /ynekOl/ /dezekOl/
>
>
> Actually, to be more correct, and closer to actual pronunciations, you
> should write:
> SING. PLURAL
> DEFINITE /le'kOl/ /lEze'kOl/
> INDEFINITE /yne'kOl/ /dEze'kOl/
>
> The E~e distinction is phonemic.
>
But French has suffixed plural markers too. As in the sentence 'les
écoles ont'.