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Dual grammatical number - Comparative characteristics | | Dual grammatical number - Comparative characteristics: Encyclopedia II - Dual grammatical number - Comparative characteristics | | In some languages, in addition to the singular and plural forms there is also a dual form, which is used when exactly two people or things are meant. In many languages with dual forms, use of the dual is mandatory, and the plural is used only for groups greater than two. In some languages, however (for example, Egyptian Arabic, many other modern Arabic dialects, and Ancient Greek), use of the dual is optional. In some languages (for example, Hebrew), the dual exists only for a few measure words and for words that naturally come in pai ...
See also:Dual grammatical number, Dual grammatical number - Comparative characteristics, Dual grammatical number - Use in modern languages, Dual grammatical number - Dual form in Indo-European languages, Dual grammatical number - Dual form in Slavic languages, Dual grammatical number - Languages with dual number, Dual grammatical number - Notes | | | Dual grammatical number, Dual grammatical number - Comparative characteristics, Dual grammatical number - Dual form in Indo-European languages, Dual grammatical number - Dual form in Slavic languages, Dual grammatical number - Languages with dual number, Dual grammatical number - Notes, Dual grammatical number - Use in modern languages, grammatical number, trial grammatical number | | |
| | | Dual grammatical number: Encyclopedia II - Dual grammatical number - Comparative characteristics
Dual grammatical number - Comparative characteristics
In some languages, in addition to the singular and plural forms there is also a dual form, which is used when exactly two people or things are meant. In many languages with dual forms, use of the dual is mandatory, and the plural is used only for groups greater than two. In some languages, however (for example, Egyptian Arabic, many other modern Arabic dialects, and Ancient Greek), use of the dual is optional. In some languages (for example, Hebrew), the dual exists only for a few measure words and for words that naturally come in pairs (such as eyes). In Slovenian, strangely, the dual is used for most nouns, but not for nouns that come in natural pairs (like socks or eyes); the plural is used instead. In many other Slavic languages there is a special plural for counting 2, as well as 3 and 4.
Although relatively few languages have the dual number and most have no number or only singular and plural, using different words for groups of two and groups greater than two is not uncommon. English has a distinction between both and all, either and any, and neither and none. Japanese, which has no grammatical number, also has words dochira (which of the two) and dore (which of the three or more).
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