-s

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /s/ (following a voiceless consonant)
• IPA: /z/ (postvocalic or following a voiced consonant)
• IPA: /ɨz/ (following a sibilant consonant /s, z, ʃ, ʒ, tʃ, dʒ/—usually written -es#English|-es)

Suffix

1. Used to form regular plurals of nouns.

   one computer → five computers

2. Used to form many pluralia tantum (nouns that are almost or entirely without singular forms).

   shorts, sunglasses

3. Used to form a word referring to a specific decade in the Gregorian calendar. Appended to the first year of the decade.

   1970s, 1890s

Translations

• French: -s
• German: -en
• Italian: -i
• Portuguese: -s, -es
• Spanish: -s, -es

Suffix

1. Used to form the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs.

   to eat → he eats

Suffix

1. Used in the formation of certain English adverbs.

   sufex en

   sufex en

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Suffix

1. (on pronouns) Possessive marker, indicating that an object belongs to the word bearing the marker.
2. (on nouns, now, nonstandard) Alternative form of -'s

Suffix

1. Hypocoristic suffix

   Babs; moms; pops; homes; toots

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