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Serbian Plural: The Correct Way of Using Them

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The general rules of the Serbian plural depend on its gender, ending and syllable but like in other languages, there are exceptions to these rules


Masculine 

(adding i)


phone - phones

telefon - telefoni


computer - computers

kompjuter - kompjuteri



(adding - evi)

( When the word is one syllable, and ends with either ž,đ,š,ć,č,nj,lj, j,c add evi )


knife - knives

nož - noževi


mouse - mice

miš - miševi



(adding - ovi)

( When the word is one syllable, and NOT ending with ž,đ,š,ć,č,nj,lj, j,c add ovi )


city - cities

grad - gradovi


wolf - wolves

vuk - vukovi



There are exceptions for this one syllable rule like:

pas - psi

dan - dani

sat - sati



Collective Plurals


tree - a bunch of trees

drvo - drveće


a flower - a bunch of flowers

cvet - cveće


a leaf - a bunch of leaves

list - lišće





Feminine

(changing a to e)


house - houses

kuća - kuće


chair - chairs

stolica - stolice



Feminine (ending with consonant, add i )

word - words

reč - reči


thing - things

stvar - stvari



Neuter

(changing e/o to a)


egg - eggs

jaje - jaja


place - places

mesto - mesta





Plurals without Singular


Vrata - door

novine - newspaper

naočare - glasses

pantalone - pants

usta - mouth