Plural

==Plural forms of other parts of speech==
In many languages, words other than nouns may take plural forms, these being used by way of [[grammatical agreement]] with plural nouns (or [[noun phrase]]s). Such a word may in fact have a number of plural forms, to allow for simultaneous agreement within other categories such as [[case (grammar)|case]], [[person (grammar)|person]] and [[grammatical gender|gender]], as well as marking of categories belonging to the word itself (such as [[verb tense|tense]] of verbs,


degree of [[comparison (grammar)|comparison]] of adjectives, etc.)

[[Verb]]s often agree with their [[subject (grammar)|subject]] in number (as well as in person and


sometimes gender). Examples of plural forms are the [[French language|French]] ''mangeons, mangez, mangent'' – respectively the first-, second- and third-person plural of the present tense of the verb ''manger''. In English a distinction is made in the third person between forms such as ''eats'' (singular) and ''eat'' (plural).

[[Adjective]]s may agree with the noun they modify; examples of plural forms are the French ''petits'' and ''petites'' (the masculine plural and feminine plural respectively of ''petit''). The same applies to some [[determiner (linguistics)|determiner]]s – examples are the French plural definite article ''les'', and the English [[demonstrative adjective|demonstratives]] ''these'' and ''those''.

It is common for [[pronoun]]s, particularly [[personal pronoun]]s, to have distinct plural forms. Examples in English are ''we'' (''us'', etc.) and ''they'' (''them'' etc.; see [[English personal pronouns]]), and again ''these'' and ''those'' (when used as [[demonstrative pronoun]]s).

In Welsh, a number of common prepositions also inflect to agree with the number, person, and sometimes gender of the noun or pronoun they govern.