Tom Gamon

TIL: Languages can have multiple plural forms

Posted on Jun 22, 2022

In English we have the singular and the plural form.

Single: I run

Plural: We run

Today I learned1 that in some Austronesian languages, they have multiple plural forms.

Single: I run

Dual: We two run

Trial: We three run

Plural: We run

  1. From reading the so-far excellent Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers ↩︎