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Numerus – Singular and plural nouns, as well as number agreement between nouns and verbs (and anywhere else number agreement shows up).

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Why has "Klitoris" two plural forms of which one is very unusual?

Klitorides is the Greek plural. The word would have been introduced by doctors, who would, at one time, have know Greek, and they would certainly have wanted to show off. Further, medical literature w …
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Plurals: which vowel takes an umlaut?

I shall try to explain why certain vowels undergo umlaut and others don't. It appears to have been a universal feature of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) that the vowel in the ending of a noun always chang …
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