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- adjective grammar Pertaining to grammatical
number (as in singular and plural), referring to two or more of something; nonsingular. - noun linguistics, grammar duoplural number; the grammatical number of a noun marking two or more of something (as in singular or duoplural). Some languages that employ the duoplural are
Navajo andTaos , where the verb shows singular, dual, and plural numbers, but the nouns are marked only as singular or nonsingular (duoplural).
Etymologies
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dual + plural
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