toasts
The plural of "toast" is toasts.
Most English nouns form the plural by adding -s, and toast follows this rule.
Meaning: bread browned by heat, or words said before drinking together (noun)
How does it change in a sentence?
Use a plural verb with toasts: the toasts are. The possessive plural adds only an apostrophe: toasts'.
How do you pronounce it?
toast is pronounced /təʊst/. The plural ending sounds like /s/.
What mistakes should you avoid?
For the bread, toast is uncountable: two slices of toast. toasts are speeches before a drink.
Did you know?
- The spoken plural ending has three sounds: /s/ after sounds like p, t and k, /ɪz/ after hissing sounds like s and ch and /z/ everywhere else.
Examples in context
- We made three toasts to the couple.Singular: We made a toast to the couple.
- The toasts were short and funny.Singular: The toast was short and funny.
