 | Charles Jean Delille - French language - 1837 - 98 pages
...subject. EXAMPLES. Le grand homme, the great man. Les grands hommes, the great men. EXCEPTIONS. 1. Nouns ending in ,s-, x, or z in the singular, do not vary in the plural. EXAMPLES. Le fils, the son. Les fils, the sons. La voix, the voice. Les voix, the... | |
 | Victor Meynier - French language - 1866 - 340 pages
...The plural of nouns is formed by adding (s) to the singular : le frère, les frères. Exceptions. 72. Nouns ending in (s, x or z) in the singular, do not change in the plural : le bras, les bras ; une voix, des voix. 73. Those ending in (au or eu) take an (x) : le chapeau,... | |
 | Auguste Brachet - 1875 - 354 pages
...The noun alone takes the sign of the plural— des passe-ports, des tire-boiicho»B. But, of course, the nouns ending in s, x, or z in the singular, do not change in the plural, as — un porte-mors (head-piece [of a bridle]), des porte-mnrs ; nn porte-voix (a speaking trumpet),... | |
 | Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1884 - 968 pages
...queens, say ninet-tatUa. (Cf. Pron., § 74) 2. EXCEPTIONS TO THE GENERAL RULE : a. Norms ending in .«, x, or z in the singular, do not change in the plural : le bas, the slocking les bas, the stockings le tas, the heap les tas, the heaps la faux, the scythe... | |
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The nouns ending in s, x, or z in the singular do not change in the plural. 