deberes plural

Question

what is the plural of "deberes" or is it just "deberes"?

Also. if you said "the exams" is would be "los examenes", but if you wanted to say "the homework", as in plural, would it be "los deberes"?

Yes it's already plural :) - Kiwi-Girl, Mar 25, 2014

ok, so saying "lo peor del colegio es los deberes porque son duro." would that be ok? - jackspratt999, Mar 25, 2014

it should be ,, los peores del colegio son los drberes porque son difíciles - 00b055e0, Mar 25, 2014

I mean deberes* .. sorry for the typo error - 00b055e0, Mar 25, 2014

my friend ,, peor is an adjective which can be used only with a noun ,, now when ever you see it being used with the articles (EL, LA, LO etc.) what you are looking at is an adjective in nominative case ,,, which means the noun i - 00b055e0, Mar 25, 2014

but the adjective in nominative case representing the noun still has to preserve the gender and the plurality of the hidden noun.. - 00b055e0, Mar 25, 2014

look at it like this .. los peores cosas son .... now here the main subject is cosas which has been hidden and thus the verb ser would also need to agree with the plurality of the hidden subject - 00b055e0, Mar 25, 2014

but I am no expert... Kiwi should be able to guide you better ,, because I have no native exposure ,, some times there is an exception to the general gramnar rules and deberes may be an exception ,, which I dont know .. - 00b055e0, Mar 25, 2014

Answer 1

Deberes is already plural my friend,, El deber means a duty or an obligación de hacer algo... when u convert it into plural it can be used figuratively to mean home work (tarea) or tasks at hand etc. Like in english we might say ,, I have some chores to complete before I go to bed.. similarly we can use the plural deberes figuratively and say ,, tengo que realizar/cumplir unos deberes antes de acostarme.

Answer 2

I don't know where you are from but when I attended a language school in Mexico they called homework 'tarea' whereas our teacher from Spain always uses deberes [plural whether one task or many]