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Countable nouns Uncountable nouns

Whatever you can count would be countable


For example:
An apple / A person / A car
A sugar a water an air
A pair of Shoes/shorts/pants/socks/gloves
Countable nouns Uncountable nouns
singular Plural Milk rice
A biscuit Biscuits yogurt coffee
An apple Apples sugar soup
A fish fishes toast cheese
An egg eggs bread orange juice
sausage sausages tea jam
a banana bananas meat fruit
a croissant croissants pomegranate seeds vegetables
pomegranate pomegranates cereal
an olive olives
a tomato tomatoes
‫➔ مرسوم – مودبانه‬
Container = ‫ظرف‬
He has black hair. ➔ hair = uncountable
There’s a hair in my coffee. ➔ hair = countable
I have 2 chickens in my backyard. ➔ C
There are 3 pieces of chicken in the plate ➔ UC
A Bread
A loaf of bread ➔ two loaves of bread
A slice of bread ➔ two slices of bread
A piece of bread ➔ two pieces of bread

Knife ➔ 2 knives
Wolf ➔ 2 wolves
Wife ➔ 3 wives ➔ polygamy
Leaf ➔ leaves = ‫برگ‬
Leave ➔ Left
Kilogram = weight = ‫وزن‬
Liter ➔ volume = ‫ حجم‬/ m3
Water ➔ 1 kg = 1 liter ➔
Density = ‫جرم حجمی = چگالی‬
Nanometer /Micrometer / Centimeter / meter / kilometer / foot / mile / yard /
inch = 2.54 cm
Gram / kilogram / ton
cc / liter / gallon / pint /
a piece of furniture / information / data / advice
news / homework / housework / love / anger / sadness / happiness / …
please give me a piece of advice.
Can I give you a piece of advice?
Singular = ‫ ➔ مفرد‬a/an
C ➔ An apple / a banana
There is an apple in the basket.
Plural = ‫جمع‬
Both = ‫هر دو‬
Countable
+ ➔ Some There are some apples in the basket
There aren’t any apples in the basket.
-/? ➔ any
Are there any apples in the basket?
Uncountable
+ ➔ Some There is some sugar in the cup.
There isn’t any sugar in the cup
-/? ➔ any
is there any sugar in the cup?
Countable Uncountable
‫ = تعداد کم‬few / ‫ = تعدار زیاد‬many ‫ = مقدار کم‬little / ‫ = مقدار زیاد‬much
There are few apples in the basket. There is little sugar in the cup.
There are many apples in the basket There is much sugar in the cup.
Lots of / no
There are lots of apples in the basket.
There are no apples in the basket.
There are a lot of apples in the basket.
There is no sugar in the cup.
There is a lot of sugar in the cup.

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