das Hotel → die Hotels
der PC → die PCs
Herr und Frau Schmidt → die SchmidtsForeign nouns which don’t add an -s in the plural include: der Manager
→die Manager,der Computer →die Computer.
Also note that words from the English which end in ‘-y’ have the
German plural form -ys:die Party →die Partys.Points to watch out for
Nouns from Greek and Latin
A number of words imported from Greek or Latin have the following
plural patterns:- nouns ending in -usor-umchange its ending to -enin the plural:
der Organismus →die Organismen
das Museum →die Museen - most nouns which end in -mareplace this form with -men:
die Firma →die Firmen
das Thema →die Themen
Plural endings in the dative
Plurals in the dative case normally add the letter -nwherever this is
possible.Die Bäume sind grün. → Sie liegen unter den Bäumen.
(nom. pl.)(dat. pl.)
The trees are green. They lie under the trees.The plural endings in -sstay the same: Mit so vielen Autoshatte niemand
gerechnet‘Nobody had reckoned with that many cars’.Nouns used in the plural only
Note that some German nouns are used only in their plural form. They
include:Eltern‘parents’,Ferien‘holidays’,Geschwister‘brother(s) and
sister(s)’,Lebensmittel‘food’,Leute‘people’,Möbel‘furniture’.12 Unit 2: Plural of nouns