Pluralize an english noun, pronoun, verb or adjective.

Arguments

• word is any English word.

• mode is :modern or :classical. The default is :modern. This applies to nouns only.

Returns

• a String representing the pluralized word.

Notes

mode when :classical applies pluralization on latin nouns in english but with latin suffixes.

Examples

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize "fish"
"fish"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize "soliloquy"
"soliloquies"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize "genius", :classical
"genii"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize "has"
"have"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize "catches"
"catch"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize "child's"
"children's"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize "Mary's"
"Marys'"

Pluralize an english adjective.

Arguments

• word is any English adjective.

Returns

• a String representing the pluralized adjective

Examples

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize_adjective "a"
"some"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize_adjective "my"
"our"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize_adjective "child's"
"children's"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize_adjective "Mary's"
"Marys'"

Pluralize an english noun.

Arguments

• word is any English noun.

• mode is :modern or :classical. The default is :modern.

Returns

• a String representing the pluralized noun

Notes

mode when :classical applies pluralization on latin nouns used in english but with latin suffixes.

Examples

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize_noun "Major general"
"Major generals"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize_noun "fish"
"fish"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize_noun "soliloquy"
"soliloquies"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize_noun "genius", :classical
"genii"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize_noun "genius"
"geniuses"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize_noun "platypus", :classical
"platypodes"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize_noun "platypus"
"platypuses"

Pluralize an english verb.

Arguments

• word is any English verb.

Returns

• a String representing the pluralized verb

Examples

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize_verb "has"
"have"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.pluralize_verb "catches"
"catch"

Singularize an English word.

Inverts pluralize/2: given a plural noun (or pronoun), returns its singular form. Inputs that are already singular, or that aren't recognised as a plural, are returned unchanged.

Arguments

• word is the word to singularize.

• mode is one of :modern (default) or :classical. The classical mode uses Latin/Greek classical singulars where applicable (e.g. octopodes → octopus in classical, vs. octopuses → octopus in modern).

Returns

• The singular form as a string. Words that don't appear plural (or that have no known singular) are returned unchanged.

Examples

iex> Text.Inflect.En.singularize "mice"
"mouse"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.singularize "children"
"child"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.singularize "octopuses"
"octopus"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.singularize "octopodes", :classical
"octopus"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.singularize "cities"
"city"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.singularize "knives"
"knife"

Singularize an English noun.

Lower-level than singularize/2: skips the pronoun and non-inflecting checks. Useful when callers have already filtered the input to nouns.

Arguments

• word is the noun to singularize.

• mode is :modern (default) or :classical.

Returns

• The singular form as a string.

Examples

iex> Text.Inflect.En.singularize_noun "octopuses"
"octopus"

iex> Text.Inflect.En.singularize_noun "platypodes", :classical
"platypus"