Nouns are singular or plural {number, grammar}. The idea of counting is in all languages. Chinese and Vietnamese do not use noun number categories but denote number by classifier words. Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and some Slavonic languages use number 2 {dual number}, as well as singular and plural. Fijian uses number 3 {trial number}.
If used with cardinal numbers, numerals can indicate classes {auxiliary numeral}, as in Japanese.
Nouns {count noun} can be enumerable. Count nouns can take indefinite articles and are plural. Bounded nouns, nouns about events, and telic nouns are similar to count nouns.
Nouns {mass noun, syntax}| can be singular but about divisible objects. Mass nouns are similar to plural nouns. Unbounded nouns, nouns about processes, and atelic nouns are similar to mass nouns.
Numbers {numeral, noun}| can be cardinal, ordinal, iterative, multiplicative, or partitive.
Nouns {compound noun} can combine two or more things, using connected nouns or more than one noun.
Nouns {collective noun}, such as "orchestra", can be about sets of similar things.
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