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vuilnismannen, Engelsman ‘Englishman’ – Engelsen, Fransman
‘Frenchman’ – Fransen, buurman/-vrouw ‘neighbour’ – buren
(males and females combined)
7.2.4.2
Words of Greek and Latin origin
(a) Nouns ending in -um can take -s or -a, the former being more
common:
album ‘album’ – albums (never alba), atheneum ‘high school’ –
atheneums, datums ‘date’ – datums, decennium ‘decade’ –
decennia (never decenniums), museum ‘museums’ – museums or
musea
(b) Nouns ending in -us referring to people take -i:
doctoràndus ‘Dutch academic title’ – doctoràndi/doctoràndussen,
històricus 22 ‘historian’ – històrici, mùsicus 22 ‘musician’ – mùsici,
neerlàndicus 22 ‘graduate in Dutch’ – neerlàndici; also catàlogus
‘catalogue’ – catàlogi/catàlogussen (the accents are not normally
written—they are only used here to show the stress)
(c) The nouns examen ‘examination’ and tentamen ‘preliminary exam’
can take -s or -ina, i.e. tentamens or tentamina, the former being
more common.
7.2.5
English plurals which are singular in Dutch
The following nouns are singular in Dutch and are followed by a verb in
the singular when one item is referred to; those with an asterisk can of
course be used in the plural when more than one item is referred to, i.e.
één bril ‘one pair of glasses’, twee brillen ‘two pairs of glasses’:
ashes de as politics de politiek
binoculars de verrekijker* pyjamas de pyjama*
economics de economie scissors de schaar*
holidays de vakantie* spectacles de bril*
22 The letter c of the singular is pronounced k and that of the plural is pronounced s
(see note under 7.3.8). The words cactus and circus add -sen.
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