feminine) and plural (masculine and feminine): (Like for nouns, for a/o-ending dialects the plural is simply obtained by adding an s - e.g. brute corresponds to bruta/bruto and its plural form brutis is brutas/brutos). The feminine is formed in several ways from the masculine: in most cases, all that is needed is -e (short: curt, curte) if the final letter is a -c, the feminine can end with -cje, -gje, -che, -ghe (little: pôc, pôcje) if the final letter is a -f, the feminine can end with -ve (new: gnûf, gnove) if the final letter is a -p, the feminine can end with -be (sour: garp, garbe) if the final letter is a -t, the feminine can end with -de (green: vert, verde) Plurals To form the plural of masculine and feminine nouns ending in -e, the -e is changed to -is (whilst a/o-ending dialects simply add an s) , = table, tables , = house, houses , = moon, moons , = school, schools , = system, systems , = glove, gloves , = niece, nieces The plural of almost all other nouns is just -s. It is always pronounced as voiceless [s], as in English cats, never as voiced [z], as in dogs. , = hand, hands , = lesson, lessons , = dog, dogs , = cat, cats , = brother, brothers , = book, books , = train, trains , = arm, arms (from Latin "bracchium") , = glove, gloves (compare English "gauntlet") In some Friulian dialects, there are many words whose final consonant becomes silent when the -s is added. The words include just about all those whose singular form ends in -t. The plural of , for example, is written as but is pronounced in much of Friuli as if it were . The plural of 'dish', though written as , is often pronounced as . Other words in this category include clâf (key) and clap (stone), whose plural forms, clâfs and claps, are often pronounced with no f or p, respectively (clâs, clas) so the longer a in the former is all that distinguishes it from the latter. A final -ç, which is pronounced either as the English "-ch" (in central Friulian) or as "-s", is pluralized in writing as -çs, regardless of whether the pluralized pronunciation is "-s" or "-ts" (it varies according to dialect): messaç / messaçs (message). Exceptions Masculine nouns