Irregular plurals

Singular number

Plural number

a man, a woman, a foot, a tooth, a goose, a mouse, a louse,

an ox, a child

men, women, feet, teeth, geese, mice, lice, oxen, children

a radius, a corpus, a formula, a bacterium,

a crisis, a criterion, an index, a bureau

radii (или radiuses), corpora, formulae (или formulas), bacteria,

crises, criteria, indices, bureaux

a deer, a sheep, a salmon, a trout, a cod, an aircraft, a spacecraft,

a crossroads, a means, a series, a species, a works

deer, sheep, salmon, trout, cod, aircraft, spacecraft,

crossroads, means, series, species, works

Special Cases

Only Singular number

Only Plural number

advice, information, news, measles, mumps physics, knowledge, furniture, luggage, gymnastics, athletics, bowls,

billiards, dominoes, darts, draughts

annals, archives, arms (weapons), belongings, clothes, cattle, poultry, scissors, dregs, earnings, wages, goods, trousers, binoculars, shorts, shoes, gloves, pyjamas, glasses, spectacles, earrings, socks, outskirts, premises, tights, remains, pliers, riches, surroundings, thanks, the tropics, whereabouts, people, police, stairs, (good)looks,

hat – hats bus – buses glass - glasses

boy – boys box – boxes bench - benches

country – countries brush – brushes match - matches

hero – heroes але: piano - pianos

potato – potatoes photo - photos

volcano – volcanoes stereo - stereos

tomato – tomatoes kilo - kilos

echo – echoes radio - radios

thief – thieves wife – wives але: roof – roofs proof - proofs

leaf – leaves shelf – shelves belief – beliefs serf - serfs

knife – knives wolf – wolves chief – chiefs safe - safes

life – lives half – halves gulf – gulfs cliff - cliffs

means a means of transport – various means of transport

series a television series – many television series

species a species of birds – different species of birds

crossroads this crossroads – these crossroads

works (factory) a gas works – two gas works

Тільки в однині

linen progress money sugar behaviour

furniture business scenery bread evidence

knowledge information wood beef research

advice trouble weather macaroni trouble

luggage accommodation sand salt music

baggage equipment damage chaos spaghetti

permission traffic work justice luck

rubbish hair food machinery jewellery

news, mumps, measles,

economics, mathematics, physics, statistics

billiards, dominoes, darts, bowls

gymnastics, athletics

politics, tactics, optics, ethics

Тільки в множині

sights riches savings earnings lodgings clothes

goods people outskirts stairs poultry trousers

sweets police slums scissors cattle jeans

arms contents wages spectacles congratulations tights

Як в однині так і в множині

family crowd congress company clergy

team jury government crew gentry

group public committee board

staff army audience delegation