ski, chili, xi, chi, qi
the answer is ........... babies, and skies thank you very much
Use an ''s' when you are indicating possession. Use 'ies' when you are indicating plurality.
For words ending in "y," you generally change the y to i and add es to make the plural. For example, "city" becomes "cities" and "baby" becomes "babies."
parties,
As with most words ending with 'y', the plural is made by dropping the 'y' and adding 'ies' — so 'melodies' is the plural.
Usually by dropping the y and adding "ies." Examples: party=parties candy=candies family=families story=stories
Words that drop the ending "y" and add "-ies" are those for which the penultimate letter of the word is a consonant. As the penultimate letter of keys is a vowel, the final consonant y is retained and an s is added at the end.
Tönnies is pronounced as "Tern-ies" with a soft "e" sound for the "ö" and an "-ies" ending similar to "ease."
Some words ending in SOME are:awesomegruesomehandsomelonesomenoisomequarrelsometiresomewinsome
Plural nouns change when the word ends in consonant-Y.baby/babiespenny/penniesWords ending in a vowel pair with y form normal S plurals.buy/buysobey/obeysmonkey/monkeysThe same applies to adding comparative suffixes: consonant Y changes, vowel Y does not.hungry --> hungriergray --> grayer
Here are some examples of nouns with the plural form ending in -ies -- you'll notice that the singular ends in -y:liberty - libertiesvictory - victoriescountry - countriesenemy - enemiesarmy - armies and navy - naviesdirty - dirtierhappy - happierduty - dutieslily - liliesreply - replieslady - ladiesspy - spiesstory - storiesbutterfly - butterfliesnappy - nappieshappy - happiescry-cries
In most cases, yes. Not in every case though... words ending in ch, x s or z get es added to form the plural, and for words ending in y, change the y to ies.