Plural of urus
irregular plural
The plural of urus is uri or uruses.
Forms of urus
| Singular | urus /ˈjʊəɹəs/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | uri /ˈuːɹi/ uruses |
| Countable | countable |
Uri and uruses in a sentence
- The Korean word for South Korea is hanguk, but South Koreans more often refer to it as uri nara, “our country”.2017, Colin Marshall, “How Korea got cool”, in The Times Literary Supplement. From the entry minjok
- Uri grasped a roughsnapped pinebranch from out of the snowjammed dumpster and mounted the steps to the porch.2017, Joshua Cohen, Moving Kings, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 198. From the entry pinebranch
Meaning of urus
- noun The aurochs.
Nouns ending in -us: plural -i
Questions about the plural of urus
- What is the plural of urus?
- The plural of urus is uri or uruses.
- Which is correct, uri or uruses?
- Both are used. uri is the more common of the two in English writing.
- Is urus countable?
- Urus is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: urus (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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