33 Borrowings - Irregular Plural Forms
Nouns
Borrowings or Loanwords are some words whose origins come from other languages (source language).
Usually Borrowings have an Irregular Plural Form. Below is a list of the most common examples:
Singular - Plural
- Cactus - cacti/cactuses;
- Fungus - fungi;
- Datum - data;
- Medium - media;
- Thesis - theses;
- Oasis - oases;
- Index - indices.
- I have a cactus on my windowsill.
There are so many cacti in their garden!
- We found an enormous fungus in the forest last week.
There are many types of edible fungi.
- This accurate datum helped us understand the issue.
I lost my SD memory card and all my data.
- Email is a medium of communication.
There are more and more disadvantages of media nowadays.
- I just finished my doctoral thesis.
We had to read the 95 theses by Martin Luther King.
- It’s a great experience to find an oasis in a desert.
Oases are home to many animals.
- There should be an index at the end of every reference book.
The law of rational indices seems to be very complicated.
Some borrowed nouns that are adapted to English have irregular forms, but they are used as normal nouns.
Borrowings or Loanwords are words whose origins are from other languages. Some Loanwords have irregular forms.
For example:
— “fungus - fungi” = Some loanwords have irregular plural forms.
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