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There are two types of plural noun forms, regular nouns and irregular nouns.

A regular plural is a word that forms the plural by adding an -s or an -es to the end of the word.

An irregular plural is a word that forms the plural in some other way.

Examples of regular common plural nouns:

  • apple: apples
  • box: boxes
  • church: churches
  • dog: dogs
  • egg: eggs
  • glass: glasses

Examples of irregular plural common nouns:

  • baby: babies (nouns ending in -y preceded by a consonant, change the -y to -ies)
  • lady: ladies
  • calf: calves (nouns ending in -f or -fe, but not -ff or -ffe, change the -f or -fe to -ves)
  • wife: wives
  • hero: heroes (some nouns ending in -o add -es, some do not)
  • tomato: tomatoes
  • man: men (words from various origin languages that inherited differing plural forms)
  • child: children
  • foot: feet
  • tooth: teeth
  • mouse: mice
  • crisis: crises
  • parenthesis: parentheses
  • fungus: fungi
  • radius: radii
  • antenna: antennae
  • larva: larvae
  • gymnasium: gymnasia
  • datum: data
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