La règle générale de transformation des noms au pluriel en français – The general rule for transforming nouns into the plural in French

For nouns and adjectives, the general rule is to add a s at the end of word when it is plural. Let’s see some examples:

Que se passe-t-il lorsqu’un nom se termine par un “s” au singulier ? – What happens when a noun ends with an “s” in the singular?

When a noun already ends with a -s, -z or -x when it is singular, there is no need to add an extra s for the plural version:

Règles secondaires pour le pluriel des noms en français – Secondary rules for the plural of nouns in French

The point at this stage of your learning process is not to remember all the different cases but to get a big picture of what you can encounter in the French grammar. Here are some interesting cases for common words:

For most of the nouns ending with –ail, the plural in French is –aux.

For singular nouns ending with –al, plural nouns in French end with –aux.

7 nouns ending in –ou have a plural in French in –oux

Here are the most common ones:

Singular nouns ending by –eu, –au or –eau will have an extra x when becoming plural in French.

Fais particulièrement attention quand ta langue maternelle est l’anglais ! – Be particularly careful when your mother tongue is English!

Nouns that are plural in English but singular in French

Nouns that are singular in English but plural in French