Plural Nouns Research Articles

Determiner Morphology of Ale

This study was focused on describing the determiner of the Ale language. Therefore, the study followed a descriptive research design and language consultants were selected using purposeful sampling. Then, the linguistic data was collected using interviews, focus group discussions and elicitation. The collected data were analyzed using qualitative methods. The findings show that the demonstrative determiner in Ale is used to show something is near to the speaker/ listener, expressed by husi 'This' for singular and hisi 'These' for plural. Oppositely, to describe some things far from the speaker /listeners are indicated by husa 'That' for singular and hisa 'Those' for plural nouns. Ale's Demonstrative determiners begin with the similar consonant sounds/h-/ and vowel ending. Possessive determiners in Ale show that something belongs to someone. These determiners of Ale are used to describe the belongs of something for someone by inserting before nouns. Quantifiers are also determiners that modify a noun to indicate its quantity. Quantifiers like he tiikisa 'a few', tiikisa 'a little', he kisha' many'. On the other hand, in Ale, quantifiers may describe cardinal and ordinal numbers. Cardinal numbers refer to the number of or quantity of something. Cardinal number quantifiers are; to'on 'one', laki 'two', and izzex 'three'. Ordinal numbers refer to the numeral positions of something. The sample of ordinal quantifiers in Ale is Paayoote' first', lanka' second, and isxxa 'third'.

Instrumental Case of Noun Plurals in the Western Polissian and Contiguous Dialects

The dialectal system of noun formation often demonstrates much greater inflectional variability in a single case position than in the literary language. This feature of the dialect paradigm is determined by the consequences of the active interaction of ancient substantive stems and innovation at the present stage of form formation of word-change norms.
 The best way to trace the specific features of filling the paradigm in general and the degree of inflectional variability specifically in a particular link is to observe spontaneous dialect speech for a long time and to form a corpus of textual records based on fixed spoken testimonies. This approach to the description of the relevant linguistic phenomena provided the basis for realizing the goal of this study – to find out the specifics of the formation of the instrumental case in the plural of substantives in the Western Polissian and related dialects based on the most complete composition of dialectal manifestations of nouns; to comment on the factors influencing the existence of dialectal differences in the studied case position.
 The case study materials of the research are the authors' records of factual material made in 146 localities in the Volyn and Rivne regions.
 The presented and analyzed material gives grounds to assert that the formation of the instrumental case of the plural nouns in the dialectal language system, as well as in the literary one, is determined by the unification of inflectional types based on the model of the corresponding manifestations of the substantives, primarily ancient *-ā-, *-jā-stems, rarely – formal vocal *-ǐ-stems. The folk conversational tradition also indicates innovations that reflect the consequences of phonetic processes. Thus, inflectional variability in the analyzed case position is determined by differences in the realization of vowel and consonant sounds, typical to the sound system of the Western Polissian and related dialects. Among the archaic word-change phenomena in the studied range, the remnants of ancient dual forms of the instrumental case of substantives are attested.
 The article provides demonstrative examples of variant implementation of a particular ending in a particular subdialect, as well as inflectional variants of a case position of a particular noun, which may indicate that forming dialectal inflectional norms is still ongoing.

When Agreement isn't Agreement: Deflected Agreement in Najdi Arabic as Aspect

In modern Arabic varieties, subject-verb agreement is complicated by plural nouns which can occur with both plural and singular verbs. These have been called strict and deflected agreement respectively. In some varieties such as Modern Standard Arabic, this deflected agreement is fixed and determined by animacy or other features; however, in other varieties such as Najdi Arabic (central Saudi Arabia), whether strict or deflected agreement occurs is less predictable. Kramer & Winchester (2017) have argued that the selection of verb form corresponds to a difference in meaning, specifically, a herd/clump as opposed to an individuated interpretation, which they locate in the nominal features of the noun. However, based on the results of two experiments, this paper argues for an alternate analysis that this meaning difference originates on the verb and corresponds to a speaker’s mental representation of the event structure. This finding leads to the conclusion that only strict agreement is actually an example of subject-verb agreement, while deflected agreement serves to mark features of the event. This usage of deflected agreement to express event structure, while initially surprising, flows from existing understandings of cognition of number and event semantics.

Gender Semantics of Nominations <i>родитель – родительница – родители</i> in Modern Media Discourse

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to identify manifestation patterns of gender semantics of Russian nouns родитель – родительница – родители (pluralia tantum) in different referent and context conditions. The research is based on newspaper subcorpora of Russian National Corpus. Results. The vocabulary values are marked by gender semes: родитель (father), родительница (mother), родители (father and mother – the separate lexeme). The first two nouns are characterized by a reduced stylistic meaning. They are also evaluated as outdated, but it does not confirm in modern Russian speech. The feminitive родительница retains a gender meaning in all types of usage, it is often used as a neutral synonym for мать (mother). It shows a clear tendency towards stylistic neutrality. At the same time it has a negative connotative background and can be used for reducing the social and personal status of the referent. The word родитель is a male nomination if denotes a particular person. For a generalized referent or if as a logical predicate, the gender seme is not preserved. Colloquial coloration is preserved only when the word referents a particular person. The meaning of the noun родители with semes of the bigender couple is fully realized only if it denotes a particular family or nominates a social role attributed to a particular family. In other cases it has non-gendered semantics, and becomes the plural form of родитель as ‘person with offspring’. Conclusion. We suppose changes in the semantic structure of the noun родитель can affect the lexical and morphological status of the word родители.

Characteristics of Plural Phrase Formation in Al-Mu'jam Al-Şagīr Lijumū' Al-Taksīr Dictionary and Their Absorption in Learning Arabic at a Language Course

This study aims to analyze the characteristics of the formation of plural phrases in the irregular plural noun dictionary Al-Mu'jam al-Şagīr lijumū' al-Taksīr by M. Muslikhin and identify their absorption patterns for learning Arabic at the Al-Azhar Language Course Institute, Pare Kediri. This qualitative research was done with two approaches: library research and case studies. Data sources were obtained from the dictionary and Arabic language course activities at the Al-Azhar Pare Kediri Language Course Institute. Data collection techniques were conducted by documentation and observation, and data analysis techniques were done by using data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion. The results showed that the compilation of the irregular plural noun dictionary of Al-Mu'jam al-Şagīr lijumū' al-Taksīr by M. Muslikhin has positive-pragmatic value in the development of Arabic lexicography and learning Arabic in Indonesia. Dictionaries that form particular phrases into plural phrases follow the pattern of wazan jam'u al-qillah wa jam'u al-kaṣrah. Some muṣṭalaḥāt in the dictionary is formed constructively (musytaq) and permanently (jāmid). Dictionaries are arranged in alphabetical order and are thematic. It is very appropriate to help with Arabic language course activities with various programs available at LKB Al-Azhar Pare Kediri and external institutions. The theoretical implication of this research is to develop Arabic lexicographic discourse in Indonesia. Meanwhile, the practical implication is to make it easier to search for Shighat Jama' Taksir on verbs in the dictionary.

«Ssavtsi» (Mammalia): the story of a 100-year-old term

The use of the Ukrainian word «ssavtsi» (= «suctorial») and its synonym «zviri» (= «beasts») to designate the class Mammalia is considered. It is shown that the word «zviri» is traditional, but over time the share of publications with the term «ssavtsi» increases, an in general there are twice as many of them. The similar meaning of these terms is conditional, and the author adheres to the usage of «ssavtsi» for the class Mammalia and «zviri» for the subclass Theria (= «placental»). The analysis of previous literature sources showed that the term «ssavtsi» appeared in scientific circulation only in 1910, in the textbook «Zoology» by I. Verkhratsky, and precisely as a plural noun with an iotized «i» («ssavtsї»). The author explains the latter as underlining the emphasis of the syllable, in contrast to predecessor terms, which were participles. This format was later changed to an iotless «i» with the appearance of writing the nomen in singular («ssavets»). There is a number of words based on the verb «ssaty» (= «to suck»), in particular «ssushchi», «ssachi», and «ssawchi in the prehistory of the appearance of the term «ssavtsi». The latter variant is not found in Ukrainian-language sources, but it was coined in the Polish language by M. Novytsky, a native of Galicia and Podolia, who after defending his thesis (in Lviv in 1863) became a professor at the Jagiellonian University, where he published a series of textbooks changing the meaning of «ssące» («zwierzęta ssące») and the noun «ssąwce» (the modern form is «ssaki»). An analogous term was present in the Czech language («ssawci» modernised as «savci»), from which textbooks were translated by activists of the Ruthenian movements. Thanks to the educational activities of the Ukrainian Scientific Society (USS), it was included in textbooks and reference books (written by I. Rakovsky, M. Charlemagne, and I. Verkhratsky in 1919–1922). One of its first popularisers was V. Hnatiuk, the compiler of the ethnographic collection «Animal Epic» (1916), who listed the articles according to systematics and used the nomen «Ssavtsi» (Mammals) for the title of the section. The further distribution of this term can also be explained by the fact that the monosyllabic form has become fixed in all the neighbouring languages: Czech «savci», Polish «ssaki», Slovak «cicavce» and others. To some extent, it was also the answer to the Latin composite name Mammalia (mamma = «mammary gland», -alia = «the one possesses»), and the suffix «-ets» in Ukrainian is a completely corresponding formant.

Analysis of Common Mistakes in English Abstract Writing of Scientific and Technological Papers: A Case Study of Automotive Practical Technology

Abstract is the epitome of the core idea of a journal paper. Excellent English abstract plays an important role in ensuring the quality of the paper and promoting its academic value in international exchanges. However, there are still many problems in the English abstracts of many papers published in academic journals. This paper analyzes and summarizes the grammatical errors of articles, singular and plural nouns, predicate verbs, conjunctions, Chinglish from other English abstracts of some papers in a vehicle engineering academic journal retrieved from CNCN.cn, and then corrects them. It is expected to provide some guidance for editors, academic workers, and engineering students in writing papers.

Derivation from Native and Loan Acronyms in Arabic

An acronym consists of the first letters of words in a compound as NASA and UNESCO. Acronyms are pronounced as a word or letter by letter (USA). Arabic has native acronyms (DAESH, HAMAS) and borrowed acronyms for names of companies, organizations, news agency (ALECSO, SANA, WATA, Radar, SEDAW). A unique linguistic phenomenon exists in Arabic where a variety of forms are derived from acronyms pronounced as a word, whether native or borrowed. This study explores derivability of acronyms, the class and meaning shifts that some native and loan acronyms in Arabic have undergone and the productivity level of those derived forms. Derivable acronyms under study are ISIS, HAMAS, FATAH, LASER, AIDS, NATO, WATA, GMC, CD, and RADAR. The most prominent and prolific acronym that was coined during the Arab Spring is DAESH (ISIS). It has more than 50 derivatives with several derived verbs, nouns and adjectives and others as استدعاش دعشنة داعشية داعشي دعششة. Although its original denotative meaning was the “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” (الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام), DAESH has gone through a meaning and form shift. For example, دواعش refers to members of ISIS, or those who support ISIS; داعشية is the phenomenon of chopping heads and bloodshed; استدعاش the act of violence and atrocities. Such derived forms have a negative and pejorative connotation. Forms derived from LASER and AIDS have derivatives; NATO has the derived adjective (ناتاوي) as الربيع الليبي الناتاوي "NATO Libyan spring", and singular and the plural nouns that are agents ناتاوي ناتاويين "supporters of NATO interference in Arabic revolutions". Those forms have a negative connotation and are used by journalists and social media users who oppose the NATO interference in Arab revolutions. GMC, CD and RADAR only take a plural suffix. Results of the analysis of the derived forms, the class and meaning shifts that acronyms in Arabic have undergone, why some acronyms are derivable, and others are not, are reported in detail.

A Study on the C-E Translation Practice of Biographies of Silk Celebrities (Excerpt) from the Perspective of Catford’s Shifts Theory

Nowadays, many outstanding traditional Chinese cultures have stepped onto the global stage and gained recognition from the public. Therefore, more classic works of excellent traditional Chinese culture should be introduced to foreign countries, making contributions to the diversity and inclusiveness of world culture and promoting a more harmonious global development. Chinese textile and clothing culture, especially ancient Chinese silk culture, is an important aspect of translation to the outside world. The source text for this study is selected from Chapter 2 of the book Biographies of Silk Celebrities. The excerpt mainly introduces the important deeds of several ancient Chinese silk craftsmen, highlighting the spirit of struggle of the older generation of industrialists. The book belongs to informative text, conveying true and objective information. It uses precise language, presents factual content, and is highly readable. However, the abundance of textile terminology, complex sentence structures, and differences in English and Chinese syntactic expressions have posed certain challenges to this translation task. To deal with these translation difficulties, translators need to apply transformation techniques reasonably during the translation process to improve the quality of the translation. Cartford believes that when the source language is translated into the target language, meaning equivalence can be achieved by using translation shifts, breaking away from formal correspondence. Guided by Catford’s theory, this study combines the characteristics of the original text to analyze specific cases and explore various types of shifts to achieve the translation purpose. In this study, level shift includes the conversion of noun plurals and tenses. Category shift involve structural shift, class shift, and unit shift. Structural shift is mainly used for converting prepositional phrases, passive voice, and negation expressions. Class shift is mainly used to convert verbs into nouns, adjectives, and prepositions. Unit shifts is primarily used between phrases, clauses, and sentences. Through these shifts, the translation conforms to the writing conventions of the target language, is easily accepted by readers, and helps achieve the desired translation effect.

CONSTRUCTIONS WITH THE MARKER KAD’JOS IN TATYSHLY UDMURT

The study investigates one of the uses of the equative marker kad’ in Tatyshly Udmurt — the construction N kad’ jos, where N is a noun or a pronoun and kad’ jos is a form of the marker kad’ with the plural noun affix -jos (cf. pet’a kad’ jos [Petya like-pl] ‘[somebody] like Petya’). This construction is attested in works on the grammar of Udmurt, but its morphosyntactic and semantic restrictions are not properly discussed. According to my field data collected in the Tatyshy district of the Republic of Bashkortostan, the restrictions on the dependent of the marker kad’ jos are formulated in terms of the animacy hierarchy. The speakers allow the use of all personal pronouns, proper names, as well as human animate nouns; in some idiolects it is also possible to use non-human animate nouns, and all the interviewed speakers rejected constructions with an inanimate noun as a dependent of kad’ jos. I propose an analysis of this construction which suggests the presence of a phonologically covert head noun. The construction N kad’ jos is a dependent of this head noun, and thus may be considered as an equative construction belonging to the nominal type, cf. the other type of equative constructions where the phrase with kad’ is a dependent of the predicate.

Is cats one word or two? L2 learners’ processing of number marking in English from the viewpoints of form–meaning mapping

This study examined number marking comprehension among Japanese learners of second language (L2) English, whose first language (L1) does not have an obligatory number marking system. The study conducted an online sentence comprehension experiment with 96 L1-Japanese learners and 32 native speakers of English, wherein participants engaged in a self-paced reading with Stroop-like number judgment tasks. Participants were required to determine the number of single words in stimuli (e.g. cat/ cats, one word; the cats/ the cat, two-word sets), and their judgment time was measured for singular and plural words. The results indicated that both groups took more time to judge single plural nouns, suggesting that Japanese L2 learners of English automatically activate plurality in online sentence comprehension as native speakers do. In contrast, neither group showed an interference effect of singularity in judging singular two-word noun sets ( the cat), unless the singularity is explicitly marked by indefinite article ( a cat). The lack of interference may be because of unmarkedness of singularity.

Monotonicity in a Numeral Classifier language

While many languages require an obligatory plural morpheme to make reference to plural individuals, numeral classifier languages generally do not (Greenberg 1972; Sanches & Slobin 1973; Doetjes 2012: a.o.). This led some researchers to conclude that noun denotations in numeral classifier languages are inherently plural. In this paper, I show that one can find a syntactic environment which requires a plural reading or a mass reading of a noun phrase in a numeral classifier language. The core empirical finding is that the postnominal measurement construction in Japanese (i) does not allow a singular reading, and (ii) sometimes triggers count-to-mass coercion. This suggests that the constraint that measure phrases select a non-quantised denotation (Krifka 1989) is non-trivially satisfied in Japanese even though Japanese is argued to have inherently cumulative common noun denotations. To solve this, I propose two possible analyses. The first option is to assume the stratified measurement reference (Champollion 2017) and the second option is to assume that Japanese distinguishes singular count nouns, plural nouns and mass nouns in its syntax (Watanabe 2006; 2017). I discuss the implications of these options in light of the previous literature and provide further data which may suggest that Japanese makes an atomicity distinction both in its lexicon and its syntax.

Assamese and BODO next Word Detection using LSTM

The official language of the Indian state of Assam is Assamese, an Eastern Indo-Aryan language. Assamese, the sole native Indo-Aryan language in the Assam Valley, has been heavily impacted by the nearby Tibeto-Burman languages in terms of lexicon, phonetics, and grammar. Its grammar is renowned for its highly inflected forms, and both honorific and non-honorific formulations can include a variety of pronouns and plural nouns. Additionally closely linked to Bengali, Assamese lacks grammatical gender distinctions like Oriya and Bengali. On the other hand, The Bodo language is a variety of dialects of the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages. Assam, Meghalaya, and Bangladesh are all home to speakers of the Bodo language, which is spoken in northeastern India. It shares linguistic kinship with the Dimasa, Tripura, and Lalunga languages and is written in Bengali, Latin, and Devanagari scripts. Another name for Next Word Prediction is Language Modeling. Predicting what word will be spoken right away requires commitment. It is one of the primary functions of NLP and has a wide range of uses. Our objective is to create this model as quickly and efficiently as possible. RNNs can interpret prior material and forecast words since they have a lengthy short-term memory, which might be useful for users when building sentences. This method creates words by using letter-by-letter prediction, or letter-by-letter prediction. Users can benefit from next word prediction, which makes typing faster and more accurate. The Assamese and Bodo languages rely on next word prediction since multiple characters can be created by pressing the same consonants combined with different vowels, vowel combinations, and special keys. As a result, we present a Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) network model for Assamese and Bodo next word prediction. With 63,300 point sentences, we test the suggested network model, and it achieves 96 per cent accuracy. In addition, we contrasted the suggested model with cutting-edge models like the LSTM. The proposed network model offers a promising outcome, according to experimental findings.

Towards the feature identity for ellipsis in Russian: Evidence from noun phrases with coordinated adjectives

This paper deals with the problem of feature identity in Russian noun phrases with coordinated modifiers. The data from various languages shows that ellipsis allows mismatch of some morphological features for the elided and the spelled-out constituents while other features must match. The studies of Russian noun phrases with coordinated modifiers propose ellipsis analysis but does not determine the constraints on feature identity for the elide and the spelled-out noun. In this paper, we analyze the identity of such noun features as number and case by conducting a corpus study and a selfpaced acceptability experiment. The results demonstrate that the difference in number is unacceptable for conjuncts without numerals (singular vs. plural nouns) but acceptable with paucal and other numerals (numberless vs. plural nouns according to D. Pesetsky’s analysis). The noun number features mismatch in noun phrases without numeral, but number features in numeral phrases do not conflict. The coordination of a noun phrase without numeral and a numeral phrase is also unacceptable. While the nouns in both conjuncts are plural, the case is different (external case vs. genitive). Thus, the ellipsis in Russian noun phrases with coordinated modifiers requires the lack of number

THE ALLOMORPHY IN ENGLISH WORDS: MORPHOLOGY AND PHONOLOGY INTERRELATED APPROACH

The article aims to analyze which allomorphs occur more accurately in English and what factors determine them. The problems that the researchers examine enable English learners and readers to pronounce English words, in this case, English morphemes. The theory employed by the researchers is morphophonemics, dealing with how morphemes alter their appearance or pronunciation in response to the sounds that surround them in a given piece of content. The approach or method that the researchers use in this article is descriptive qualitative method based on the data. The findings that the researchers come across are as follows: (a) the definitive article, (b) the definitive article, (c) Derivation, (d) Irregular verbs, (e) Past tense marker (-ed), (f) Present tense morpheme, (g) Plural noun markers, (h) Possessive markers. It can be seen that the shape or pronunciation of an English word depends on the linguistic environment in which it occurs, and it is obvious that morphophonemic change involves not only replacing but also changing the phonological shape of a morpheme. Based on the data, the researchers find that there are two basic types of allomorph, such as morphophonemic changes and suppletion. The researchers also attend to the theory of Pike, stating that sounds tend to be influenced by their environments.

Scalar implicatures with discourse referents: a case study on plurality inferences

This paper explores the idea that scalar implicatures are computed with respect to discourse referents. Given the general consensus that a proper account of pronominal anaphora in natural language requires discourse referents separately from the truth-conditional meaning, it is naturally expected that the anaphoric information that discourse referents carry play a role in the computation of scalar implicatures, but the literature has so far mostly exclusively focused on the truth-conditional dimension of meaning. This paper offers a formal theory of scalar implicatures with discourse referents couched in dynamic semantics, and demonstrates its usefulness through a case study on the plurality inferences of plural nouns in English.

Predicting ineffability: Grammatical gender and noun pluralization in Icelandic

The structure of inflectional paradigms is characterized by interdependencies between forms and categories. The question is what the nature of these interdependencies are and how they are discovered in acquisition. In this article, I approach these issues from a learning perspective using gender and plural formation in Icelandic as a case study. Specifically, I investigate how knowledge of grammatical gender facilitates the induction of plural forms or vice versa. Noun pluralization in Icelandic cross-cuts both gender and inflection classes, raising the question of how children can extract the relevant generalizations given syncretism both within and across inflectional paradigms. In a corpus study, I show how predictions regarding the productivity of correspondences between gender and plural forms in Icelandic can be formulated by the Tolerance Principle, a learning model proposed by Yang (2005; 2016). The model centers around a threshold function that predicts the division line between productive and unproductive linguistic patterns in language based on the proportion of exceptions associated with any given pattern. These predictions were put to the test in two elicited production studies on both children and adults. I demonstrate how both children and adults were at a loss to pluralize nouns that they were unable to assign gender to. Thus, productivity in gender assignment correlated with productivity in plural formation. Since knowledge of gender is contingent on the knowledge of productive nominative singular forms, I propose that gender may be a developmental prerequisite for the acquisition of plural formation in Icelandic due to the statistical primacy of singular forms in the input. I argue that gaps within the inflectional paradigm of Icelandic nouns follow naturally from a learning process guided by productivity that fails and results in rote memorization.

The Morphological Analysis of Inflectional Plural Noun Suffixes Found in Catharsis Novel by Anastasia Aemelia

Novel is a long narrative story that describes the specific human experiences in their life as depicted by the portrait of the characters. A novel that is written by Anastasia Aemilia entitled Catharsis talks about the story of a troubled young woman with special gifts and heavy burdens. Observing inflectional suffix aims to enrich the language learners’ vocabulary especially noun in plural forms. This qualitative research focuses on the analysis of inflectional plural noun suffixes that are found in the novel entitled Catharsis. This study is also analyzed based on the theory that proposed by Katamba (1993) regarding to the research problem which about the types of inflectional plural noun suffix. The results that are found 681 data that contain inflectional suffixes. Those data are divided into 3 categories namely 646 data (95%) of plural noun suffix (-s), 28 data (4%) of plural noun suffix (-es), and 7 data (1%) of plural suffix (-ies).

Bound Morpheme Errors in Undergraduate Research Articles: The Case of an English Education Department

The graduates of English education departments are supposed to possess an advanced level of English, the knowledge of which is essential when becoming educators. Consequently, it is important to recognize prevailing grammatical errors that they commit, since teaching what is essentially flawed language use may cause damaging consequences. This study examines six undergraduate research articles from an English education department to determine common errors in the use of bound morphemes, which come into focus considering their consistent occurrences. This descriptive qualitative research describes and examines the errors in both inflectional and derivational categories. The result of the study shows that the high number of errors in bound morphemes that mark a plural noun as well as present and past tense can be attributed to the similarly high number of their uses in academic writing. Also, the grammatical issues that need to be addressed are those of non-finite verb phrases and noun phrases. A conclusion that can be drawn is that the bound morpheme errors are largely preventable. Suggestions to avoid the errors are then offered.

On English translation variation of similar plural nouns in the Holy Quran

This study aims to explore the difficulties involved in translating similar plural nouns in the Holy Quran from Arabic into English. It specifically investigates 21 plural nouns derived from seven singular nouns in the Holy Quran and discusses their exegetic contexts and translation into English. To achieve this aim, the study tracks singular nouns where three plurals are derived from each of them. The meaning of each singular noun is looked up in Al-Mu’jam Al-Waseet, typically the most reliable Arabic dictionary. These meanings are also checked in Ibn Katheer’s explication, an accredited Islamic exegesis. The study also compares the translation of these nouns into English in two translations: Translation of the meanings of the Noble Qur’an in the English language by Al-Hilali and Khan (1983) and The meaning of the Holy Qur’an by Ali (Citation1999). The findings show that broken plurals which derive from the same root or singular noun are slightly different in meaning. This nuance is a result of the morphological pattern of the plural. These patterns may denote abundance, rarity, size, form, or time. These differences are actually ignored in translation, i.e. similar broken plurals are rendered into English as if they were synonyms in Arabic, which is not the case.