English question. Is this plural or singular?

Question

1) "The Japanese"
2) "The Japanese native"
3) "Native Japanese"
4) "Japanese"
Are they plural or singular?

Answer 1

It depends, because in Japanese, plural singular doesn't matter, usually.



1. The Japanese sounds plural, such as "The Japanese are very smart."

Unless used as an adjective it'd be singular- "The Japanese girl is shy."



2. The Japanese native is singular because of the word "native" if it were plural, it'd be "the Japanese natives."



3. Native Japanese can be either, sounds more plural though, like in #1.



4. Both. Japanese people are very polite. He is a Japanese. Depends on context and if it's a noun or an adjective.

Answer 2

Singular

Answer 3

Number one would be plural, and number two is singular, three and four can be either plural or singular depending on the context.

Answer 4

they all depend on what sentence they're used in like if u said "the japanese talk cool" then it would be plural but if u said, "the japenese person ate a sandwich." then it would be singular

Answer 5

it all depends on how you use it in a sentence:



#2 is def singular. . .i think 1 is plural

Answer 6

You'll have to have a giant list of all the variations. What will really cook your noodle are collective nouns like "personnel" or "flock" or "pack" among about a thousand others. The thing is, you'll also have to decide how things are related, and it will depend on context. For example is it a "set" or is it "items" or "group" or "students" or "student body" or "people" or "users"? Edit... a thumbs down, I should have figured. What about all the latin based nouns? Wow, some voters.

Answer 7

Both, depending on how the word is used within a sentence.

Answer 8

it kind of depends on the context of the sentence but

1) plural

2) singular

3) plural

4) plural



or so i'm pretty sure.

Answer 9

They can be either depending on the context.