Difficult cases of subject-verb concordance in number are described below. Languages cannot have any conventional correspondence, such as Japanese or Malay; Little, as in English; a small amount, as in spoken French; a moderate amount, as in Greek or Latin; or a large quantity, as in Swahili. Names that may pose a problem for linguists in terms of correspondence in numbers (e.g.B. sheep, deer, fish, silver, airplanes, headquarters, statistics, mumps) are described in irregular plural nouns in the Letter section. There are also matches in the number. For example: Vitabu viwili vitatosha (Two books will be enough), Michungwa miwili itatosha (Two orange trees will be enough), Machungwa mawili yatatosha (Two oranges will be enough). Case agreement is not an essential feature of English (only personnel pronouns and pronouns that have casus marking). The concordance between these pronouns can sometimes be observed: such a concordance is also found in predicatories: man is tall (“man is tall”) vs. the chair is large (“the chair is large”).

(In some languages, such as German. B, this is not the case; only attribute modifiers show compliance.) Most Slavic languages are very volatile, with the exception of Bulgarian and Macedonian. The correspondence is similar to Latin, for example between adjectives and nouns in gender, number, uppercase and lowercase (if counted as a separate category). The following examples come from serbo-croatic: in a sentence, a possessive pronoun in person, number, and sex must correspond to the noun or pronoun to which it relates. Typical agreement templates are shown in the following examples.