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Some languages have collectives but no grammatical Plural . For example, Chinese , Japanese (except in a small number of cases), and Korean do not have plurals. However, groups of people can be referred to, either by context or periphrastically (i.e., with additional words or phrases).

An example from Japanese:
  • ''Tanaka-san'' "Mr/Ms Tanaka"

  • ''Tanaka-san-tachi'' "The Tanakas", "Tanaka & Co.", "Tanaka and friends", etc.