Irregular Plurals Game...

Question

Aquí hay un juego para inglés-hablantes para entrenar con vocabulario y para español-hablantes para aprender plurales ingleses irregulares...

Pon una palabra inglesa que no forma el plural como regular con la traducción español... Si quieres, también puedes poner errores frecuentes...

Here's a game for English-speakers to practise their vocab and for Spanish-speakers to learn irregular English plurals...

Post an English word that doesn't form its plural regularly with the Spanish translation... If you wish, you can also post commonplace mistakes...

Vota arriba la respuesta última por favor...

Vote for the last answer please...

I know a bunch of these. How many can I put up? - Daniela2041, Apr 5, 2015

All if you wish, but maybe not at once... ;-) - Faldaesque, Apr 6, 2015

Answer 1

English singular: staff, meaning long wooden stick, for example as used by a wizard

Plural: staves

Common mistake: staffs

Traducción: bastón / cayado

Answer 2

Singular: mouse

Plural: mice

Traducción ratón - ratones

There's a moose loose aboot ma hoose ¡! - Faldaesque, Apr 5, 2015

Rofl - rac1, Apr 5, 2015

"I hate you meeses to pieces!" Said Sylvester, the puddycat. - Daniela2041, Apr 5, 2015

@Rac1. That works with computer meeses, too. :) - Daniela2041, Apr 5, 2015

Cool! Thanks Dani. :) - rac1, Apr 5, 2015

Dani, computer meeses give me muchas problemas :) - jim5489, Apr 6, 2015

Answer 3

English singular: deer (German cognate, 'Tier' = 'animal' / 'beast')

Plural: deer

Common mistake: deerS (especially among young children)

Traducción: ciervo / venado

Answer 4

English singular: candelabrum

Plural: candelabra

Common mistake: candelabra as singular

Traducción: candelabro / hachero / blandón

Answer 5

Cactus/cacti

Cacto/cactos

Answer 6

foot/feet

pie/pies

Answer 7

English singular: criterion

Plural: criteria

Common mistake: either as singular/plural

Traducción: criterio

Answer 8

English singular: datum - a single piece of information, as a fact, statistic, or code; an item of data.

Plural: data

Usage note

Data is a plural of datum, which is originally a Latin noun meaning “something given.” Today, data is used in English both as a plural noun meaning “facts or pieces of information”

Translation

datum n (piece of data) dato nm

NPL (with sing or pl vb) datos mpl

My hero! - Daniela2041, Apr 6, 2015

Yo también! - sanlee, Apr 7, 2015

Answer 9

tooth/teeth

diente/dientes

Answer 10

Goose/Geese

El ganso/Los gansos

I voted--and on the other one too. ♥ - Daniela2041, Apr 6, 2015

Thanks, Dani amiga ♥ - jim5489, Apr 6, 2015

Answer 11

Louse/lice

Piojo/piojos

¡Uf! ¡Qué feo! - Daniela2041, Apr 6, 2015

House/hice?--Nah! - Daniela2041, Apr 6, 2015

jejejejej - sanlee, Apr 6, 2015

Rofl - rac1, Apr 6, 2015

Answer 12

Appendix/appendices

Apéndice/apéndices

Answer 13

Singular: man

Plural: men

Traducción: hombre - hombres

Hehe :) - Manity, Apr 6, 2015

Answer 14

child - children

niño - niños

Answer 15

English singular: agendum

Plural: agenda

Note on usage: technically 'agendum' is the singular & 'agenda' its plural, but nowadays 'agenda' is almost always used as singular with 'agendas' as plural...

Traducción: agenda / programa

El plural de agenda en Español es "agendas" y el plural de programa es "programas". - crucesignatus, Apr 7, 2015