| hat – hats
boy – boys
city - cities
| bus – buses
box – boxes
brush - brushes
| glass – glasses
bench – benches
match - matches
|
| hero – heroes
potato – potatoes
volcano – volcanoes
tomato – tomatoes
echo - echoes
| но
| piano – pianos
photo – photos
stereo – stereos
kilo – kilos
radio - radios
|
| thief – thieves
leaf – leaves
knife – knives
life – lives
wife – wives
shelf – shelves
wolf – wolves
half - halves
| но
| roof – roofs
belief – beliefs
chief – chiefs
proof – proofs
serf – serfs
safe - safes
|
| basis – bases
crisis – crises
thesis – theses
phenomenon – phenomena
criterion – criteria
| datum – data
formula – formulae/formulas
memorandum – memoranda/memorandums
|
| man – men
woman – women
foot – feet
tooth - teeth
| goose – geese
mouse – mice
louse – lice
| ox – oxen
child – children
|
| deer – deer
sheep – sheep
swine – swine
aircraft – aircraft
means
series
crossroads
species
works (factory)
| fish – fish (fishes = kinds of fish)
fruit – fruit (fruits = kinds of fruit)
one aircraft, two aircraft
a means of transport – various means of transport
a television series – many television series
this crossroads – these crossroads
a species of birds – different species of birds
The steel works has/have closed down.
|
A
| Только в единственном числе
|
| linen
furniture
knowledge
advice
luggage
permission
death
rubbish
| money
business
information
trouble
accommodation
luck
equipment
jewellery
| progress
traffic
hair
scenery
wood
weather
sand
damage
| work
food
sugar
beef
spaghetti
macaroni
music (but: a piece of music)
bread (but: a loaf of bread)
| justice
chaos
machinery
behavior
evidence
research
|
B
| news; mumps; measles economics, mathematics, physics, statistics billiards, dominoes, darts, bowls gymnastics, athletics politics, tactics, optics
|
| Только во множественном числе
|
| sights
goods
sweets
arms
оружие
holidays
| riches
people
police
contents
customs
(таможня)
| savings
outskirts
slums
wages
earnings
stairs
| scissors
spectacles
opera-glasses
binoculars
lodgings
races (скачки)
| poultry
gentry
cattle
congra-tulations
surround-dings
authorities
| clothes
trousers
jeans
shorts
tights
pajamas
|
| These clothes are expensive.
Where are the scissors? – They are in the table.
| a pair of trousers
two pairs of trousers
|
| Как в единственном, так и во множественном числе:
|
| family
team
group
staff
| crowd
jury
public
army
| congress
government
committee
media
| majority
minority
audience
company
|
| Составные существительные
|
| brother-in-law
forget-me-not
merry-go-round
но: man (woman)-driver
| brothers-in-law
forget-me-nots
merry-go-rounds
men (woman)-drivers
|
Единственным сохранившимся в английском языке падежом существительных, образуемых при помощи окончания, является так называемый Притяжательный падеж (Possessive Case). Во всех других случаях существительное находится в общем падеже (Common Case), имеющем нулевое окончание.
