Pluraliseert

Pluraliseert is a Dutch verb meaning to make something plural, i.e., to form or apply the plural form of a word. The term is a loanword from English “to pluralize” and is used in modern Dutch in contexts such as linguistics, lexicography, education, and text processing.

Grammatically, pluraliseert is the present tense, third-person singular form of the infinitive pluraliseren. The infinitive is pluraliseren, and the stem is pluraliseer-. It is used with a singular subject: for example, “De redacteur pluraliseert de woorden.” In linguistic or editorial discussions, the act of changing a word to its plural is often described as part of meervoudsvorming (plural formation), sometimes simply referred to as pluraliseren.

The past participle of pluraliseren is gepluraliseerd, used with perfect tenses, e.g., “Het woord is gepluraliseerd.” In practice, Dutch meervoudsvorming commonly involves suffixes such as -en or -s, though irregular forms exist. The term pluraliseert is therefore a practical label for the act of applying plural forms in speech, writing, or computational language work, rather than a description of a single fixed rule.