In linguistics, pluractionality,[1] or verbal number, if not used in its aspectual sense, is a grammatical aspect that indicates that the action or participants of a verb is, or are, plural.
English also has a number of verbs (often ending in -le, such as nibble) which indicate repetitive actions, and this is similar to some types of grammatically-marked pluractionality in other languages.
When a noun occurs with a numeral in Georgian, it takes the singular form regardless of its semantic number.
[4] Muskogean languages such as Koasati have a three-way distinction, with singular, dual, and plural verbs.
The Central Pomo language of California distinguishes ʔčʰá·w 'sit, stay' and pluractional napʰów for more than one person.
The perfective suffix -w on these verbs may be replaced with -t for a plural object: háyudogš-čé-whook-catch-PFVháyu š-čé-wdog hook-catch-PFV"He tied up the dog.
The Koiarian language Barai has suppletive forms: The Slavic verb can express pluractionality as part of its morphological equipment besides iterativity.
That is why, morphologically, this pluractional form may seem as just a perfective counterpart to iterative (chodila - pochodila), yet there is a difference.
While the iterative retains the valency of the original verb, the pluractional takes a direct object.
So, whereas išla and its iterative chodila requires a directional preposition (išla (chodila) do Malej Fatry / k doktorovi 'she went (often/regularly went) to the Malá Fatra mountains / to (see) a doctor'), the pluractional pochodila takes a direct object: pochodila (celú) Malú Fatru; pochodila (všetkých možných) doktorov 'she wandered the whole of the Malá Fatra mountains; she went to / consulted (all possible) doctors'.