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Answer for the clue "Odds or evens, e.g ", 6 letters:
plural

Alternative clues for the word plural

Usage examples of plural.

Our second person plural is liable to misconstruction by an ardent mind.

In most other countries the propertyless were disqualified or plural votes were given to taxpayers, university graduates and fathers of families.

LotR-style form of Quenya may opt for the forms with double plural marking.

A feature of nouns, pronouns, and a few verbs, referring to singular or plural.

We have a few examples of this plural in our scarce source material, but they are not very helpful.

I will not construct any exercises involving the plural form of the possessive and instrumental cases.

No comment on how high it went, but judges, plural, were sure to be indicted.

Tolkien changed the rules for how the plural form of adjectives is constructed.

It could be that in both instances, the case ending is not added to the adjective because the adjectival plural inflection and the case inflection would somehow collide.

In early sources, adjectives in -a form their plural form by adding the ending -r, just like nouns in -a do.

This way of forming plural adjectives was still valid as late as 1937 or slightly earlier.

In this poem, adjectives in -a form their plurals by means of the ending -i.

Later, Tolkien however introduced one more complication: Adjectives in -a had plurals in -ai in archaic Quenya only.

As for adjectives in -ë, they seem to behave like most nouns of the same shape: -ë becomes -i in the plural.

Evidently the plural form was especially mentioned primarily to illustrate another point: that adjectives in -itë have plural forms in -isi, the consonant t turning into s before i.