Comparativetypolog y

Plurality of nouns. Uzbek nouns and pronouns usually denote this number by means of suffix -лар (e.g. одам-лар, муттащам-лар) which can sometimes be used also to denote respect to a person who is spoken about. e.g.: Дадамлар келдилар. (But you have to keep in mind that you can’t have more than one father).

English nouns can express the notion of plurality in the following ways:

a) by means of suffixes :

-s, -es (wife-wives, head-heads),

-en (ox-oxen, child-children, brother-brethren);

-a datum-data, sanatorium -sanatoria, phenomenon-

phenomena) etc.

b) by changing the root vowel (man-men, goose-geese)