Plural of snus?

[VBSnus]

Ett snus, flera snuser.

En biljon snusarinos?

[chossy]

Ett snus, flera snuser.

En biljon snusarinos?

Sounds abour right.

A trillion snusarinos = En biljon snusariner

[Snusdog]

Chossy is correct as long as you are using Swedish. However, one cannot simply transliterate between languages and expect it to be correct (or intelligible to your readers). If you write “snuser” no one but you and chossy are going to know what the hell you are talking about.

My guess is that, in English, the word “snus” like the word “sheep” is both the singular and the plural form of the noun (e.g. Twenty sheep jumped over the pen leaving only one sheep behind. Twenty snus are a lot to have one snus would be fine). However, as Wittgenstein pointed out, language depends a great deal on use. Thus until a precedent of expected use is established, I would recommend simply using a descriptive plural such as, “brands of snus” or “varieties of snus”.

[Roo]

Like Anthony said. Two goose be geese but snus ain't sneese? :wink:

[chossy]

Ofcourse, I have no idea what would be the correct usage in english.
Even in swedish, snuser sounds stuffy and old. Generally most would probably just say snus and possibly add one word to clarify the meaning.

But snuser is from SAOL ( swedish academy dictionary ) and it sounds weird to me, I would personally have said just snus regardless of how many.

[Snusdog]

Ofcourse, I have no idea what would be the correct usage in english.

Apparently neither do the rest of us who actually speak English as our native language. ops:

[MojoQuestor]

I vote for "snusa", just because I like the way it sounds.

[Snusdog]

Like Anthony said. Two goose be geese but snus ain't sneese? :wink:

And to snooze twice is not to sneeze but to snus twice tis snice

[RRK]

Ofcourse, I have no idea what would be the correct usage in english.

Apparently neither do the rest of us who actually speak English as our native language. ops:

Wouldn't it actually be snuff in english?

[Snusdog]

Wouldn't it actually be snuff in english?

Etymologically, yes. Semantically, no

[chadizzy1]

In the English language, the plural form of words ending in -us varies. Often multiple forms are acceptable. Examples include:
fungus becomes fungi
hippopotamus becomes hippopotamuses or hippopotami
platypus becomes platypuses; platypi occurs but is etymologically incorrect, and platypodes, while technically correct, is very rare
terminus becomes termini or terminuses
uterus becomes uteri or uteruses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_..._ending_in_-us

[VBSnus]

Sounds like I'm in a unique position to define the language then. Here are the New Rules:

One snus.
Two snusa.

Snusa come in Armies, like frogs. So if I have a lot of snus, I could be said to have an Army of Snusa. Snus shall never be said to come in "gaggles".

A "tin of snus" is acceptable, as is "tin of snusa" though the former makes more sense grammatically. Several tins of snus can be called "snusii" in order to alleviate the annoyances surrounding multi-word descriptions.

A huge cache of snus (like of sagedil proportions) will be a combination of the words "snus" and "googol" and will be known as a "snoogol". For instance, "That's one losalicious snoogol Sage!"

[chadizzy1]

"That's one losalicious snoogol Sage!"

Just shot beverage out of my nose laughing, my daughter is staring at me like I'm insane. That's funny right there.

[NorSnuser]

However, as Wittgenstein pointed out, language depends a great deal on use. Thus until a precedent of expected use is established, I would recommend simply using a descriptive plural such as, “brands of snus” or “varieties of snus”.

Exactly. Type snuses in Google. Snus has apparently followed the form fish/fishes rather than sheep/sheep. It can be both a singular and a plural noun as snus and becomes snuses when referring to more than one of different types or varieties.

[Snusdog]

In the English language, the plural form of words ending in -us varies. Often multiple forms are acceptable. Examples include:
fungus becomes fungi
hippopotamus becomes hippopotamuses or hippopotami
platypus becomes platypuses; platypi occurs but is etymologically incorrect, and platypodes, while technically correct, is very rare
terminus becomes termini or terminuses
uterus becomes uteri or uteruses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_..._ending_in_-us

Chad this is true but not relevant. The reason this rule would not apply to snus is that snus does not denote a singular reference. That is “snus” does not refer to a singular entity that can then be made plural. Instead “snus” refers to ground tobacco and thus is technically not a singular noun at all but rather an "uncountable" collective. In your example, Hippos and the like are all individual single entities and thus can be made plural. However, a collective cannot (consider the difference between the entity cow/cows verses the collective “cattle”)