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Переводы в словарях Lingvo
hippestмодный,следящий за новинками,стиляга
copyэкземпляр, отдельный оттиск печатного издания
hopeнадеяться
HopeХоуп
hipбедро
pipe(курительная) трубка
hip-hopхип-хоп
wipeвытирать, протирать, утирать
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#1
Hello. How is it ?
Wife — wives
Potato — potatoes
So fe changes into ves
THe Ending O takes ES
SO WHY
hippos not hippoes
And
Giraffes not girraves?
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#2
There are only a few nouns that change f to v when forming the plural.
Some nouns ending in o add an e before the s. Typically the ones that feel more English and less foreign; but this rule is not infallible, or easy for learners to follow!
Fuller details here: Forming Plurals in English
(Take comfort from the fact that, compared to Polish, English declension is a synch.)
(Take comfort also from the fact that no-one will misunderstand you if you get these wrong. There are much more important aspects of English to worry about; unfortunately many of those are much more difficult to teach, understand and learn. Which I suppose is why you are focusing on this!)
Last edited: Nov 16, 2020
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#4
‘Wife’ and ‘Knife’ are the only two words which have plurals in -ves. (Edit: I have been reminded that ‘life’ becomes ‘lives’ in the plural, so despite what my source says, there may well be more than two words which have plurals in -ves.)
About ten words ending in -f have plurals in -ves
Dwarf, hoof, scarf, wharf and roof can have plurals in -fs or -ves. The latter is the most common. Other words in -f(e) are regular.
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Some nouns add -es in the plural if the end in -o: echo, hero, potato, tomato.
Nouns ending in vowel + o have plurals in -s: radios, zoos, as do most new words coming from other languages: commandos, kilos, logos, solos
Buffalo, mosquito, tornado, volcano can have plurals in -s ot -es. -es is the most common.
After Swan, 2005: 514-515
Last edited: Nov 16, 2020
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#5
What about Tolkien? Are you saying he was wrong to write of ‘dwarves’? 😎
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#7
I’m only quoting from Swan. Obviously, things may have moved on since 2005. And I thought the statement that ‘dwarves’ was more common than ‘dwarfs’. («Dwarf, hoof, scarf, wharf and roof can have plurals in -fs or -ves. The latter is the most common.»)
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#8
It was «rooves» that caught my eye. Used by Orwell, but not many other writers.
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#9
‘Wife’ and ‘Knife’ are the only two words which have plurals in -ves. (Edit: I have been reminded that ‘life’ becomes ‘lives’ in the plural, so despite what my source says, there may well be more than two words which have plurals in -ves.)
About ten words ending in -f have plurals in -ves
Dwarf, hoof, scarf, wharf and roof can have plurals in -fs or -ves. The latter is the most common. Other words in -f(e) are regular.
Those are words inherited from Old English. Old English did not distinguish between the sounds of f and v. They were considered variants od the same sound.
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#10
What about Tolkien? Are you saying he was wrong to write of ‘dwarves’? 😎
It was a creative literary decision.
Errors & Omissions: A plural question that Disney answers better
In a foreword to The Hobbit, published in 1937, J R R Tolkien writes: «In English, the only correct plural of ‘dwarf’ is ‘dwarfs’ and the adjective is ‘dwarfish’. In this story ‘dwarves’ and ‘dwarvish’ are used, but only when speaking of the ancient people to whom Thorin Oakenshield and his companions belonged.»
In appendix F to The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien gives a further explanation: «But in the Third Age something of their old character and power is still glimpsed… these are the descendants of the Naugrim of the Elder Days… in whose hands still lives the skill in work of stone that none have surpassed. It is to mark this that I have ventured to use the form ‘dwarves’, and remove them a little, perhaps, from the sillier tales of these latter days.»
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#11
bravadoes, bravoes, salvoes
Words of Greco-Latin origin often have more than one plural form, e.g., musea museums, dramata dramas.
Hippopotamus has four, according to wiktionary, «hippopotamuses or hippopotamusses or hippopotami or hippopotamus».
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#12
‘Wife’ and ‘Knife’ are the only two words which have plurals in -ves. (Edit: I have been reminded that ‘life’ becomes ‘lives’ in the plural, so despite what my source says, there may well be more than two words which have plurals in -ves.)
Off the top of my head: elves, wolves, calves, halves and shelves.
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#13
Off the top of my head: elves, wolves, calves, halves and shelves.
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I would add loaf — loaves and thief thieves.
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#14
Basically most words that were present in Old English have that -f/-ves (/-f/ > /-vz/) pattern as the only possibility or as an alternative (hooves, calves, halves, thieves etc.); if I remember correctly, it originated in early Middle English. However, by now it’s a purely historical alteration and therefore lexically limited.
In any case, I doubt Slavs should complain («wierchy», «panowie», «włose»…).
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#15
it originated in early Middle English
Yes, the spellings with v emerged when in Middle English, because of the many French loans, [v] started to become an independent phoneme rather than an allophone of /f/.
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#16
Basically most words that were present in Old English have that -f/-ves (/-f/ > /-vz/) pattern as the only possibility or as an alternative (hooves, calves, halves, thieves etc.); if I remember correctly, it originated in early Middle English. However, by now it’s a purely historical alteration and therefore lexically limited.
In any case, I doubt Slavs should complain («wierchy», «panowie», «włose»…).
Wierch- sounds old Polish
Panowie- Polish
Włose? I don’t know.
It would be włosy in Polish
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
hippos
- plural of hippo
Synonyms[edit]
- hippopotami
- hippopotamuses
Anagrams[edit]
- popish, shippo
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We Bishop of Hippo By the grace of God Declare that the goods of the deceased Fabianus Be divided in three parts The first for Sixtus
Pompey granted self-rule to roughly ten Greek cities on Coele-Syria’s eastern frontier; this group, of which Hippos was one, came to be called the Decapolis and was incorporated into the Roman Provincia Syria.
This hippo family goes about things exactly like you do at home.
She stole cigarettes from Reppe and Hippo
After a night of grazing on land, these hippos return to spend the daylight hours in the cooling waters
The commentary itself was written during the papacy of Pope Damasus I, that is, between 366 and 384, and is considered an important document of the Latin text of Paul before the Vulgate of Jerome, and of the interpretation of Paul prior to Augustine of Hippo.
Is this a lion or a hippo?
The school was named after St. Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430 AD).
The word hippodrome comes from the Greek hippos (ἵππος), horse, and dromos (δρόμος), path or way.
‘I don’t know anything about his death,’ said Hippo.
Overall, scientists discovered that the nutrient-sensing LKB1/AMPK cascade inhibits Yki independently of the Hippo pathway.
We are nice people, but Hippo had to protect us.’
Look, guys, harry the hippo is flying.
The name «Hippocrepis» comes from the Greek for «horse» (hippo-) and for «shoe» (-krepis): literally, «horseshoe»; this is descriptive of the shape of the fruit segments in some species .
However, the earliest anthracotheres, the ancestors of hippos, do not appear in the fossil record until the Middle Eocene, millions of years after Pakicetus, the first known whale ancestor, appeared during the Early Eocene, implying the two groups diverged well before the Eocene.
And Iím asking the dog where itís going with the hippo?
The River Pride feeds on a dead hippo washed up on the river’s bank.
‘Nothing much else to say about her, except that she understands Hippo’s backwards words.
He is called King Hippo because of the way his face resembles a hippopotamus.
Evening is also the time when lazy hippos begin to stir as they prepare to leave the water on their nocturnal eating spree.
It’s time to go back to the watering hole, hungry hippo.
Hippos hang out in a » bloat. «
Though I wanted to stay with Hippo’s girl, I stuck with my promise to LaManche, and started on the new arrival.