Abstract
The vast majority of Spanish nouns form their plural in one of the following three ways:
Method | Main type of noun | Example of plural |
Add -s | Ending in an unstressed vowel Many foreign words ending in a consonant | las casas los chalets los shows |
Add -es | Spanish (not foreign) nouns ending in a consonant other than -s Nouns ending in a stressed vowel + -s Many nouns ending in a stressed vowel | las flores los ingleses los iranées |
No change | Nouns already ending with an unstressed vowel + -s Families (people or things) | las crisis los virus los Blanco los Ford |
Exceptions to these rules are discussed in the following sections.
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Butt, J., Benjamin, C. (1994). Plural of nouns. In: A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8368-4_2
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