Animals

Plurals of animal nouns

• Most nouns add -en: hond → honden, paard → paarden, dier → dieren.
• Nouns ending in -el, -er, -en add -s: vogel → vogels, varken → varkens.
• Short vowel: double the last consonant: kat → katten, vis → vissen. Long vowel: write it once: schaap → schapen.
• An s often becomes z: muis → muizen. And one to just learn: koe → koeien.
• All plurals take de: het paard → de paarden.