# Problem in Plurals (in snowball)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-plurals-in-snowball/13954
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 15, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-plurals-in-snowball/13954 "2013-10-15T14:03:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@samaswin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samaswin)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-plurals-in-snowball/13954/1 "2013-10-15T14:03:52Z")
If I search goose it should return geese. But in snow field it's not. Any
one know the solution?
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### Author:  [@samaswin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samaswin)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-plurals-in-snowball/13954/2 "2013-10-15T14:17:02Z")
I understood. They use stem. Is their any alternative for plurals?
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2013, 9:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-plurals-in-snowball/13954/3 "2013-10-15T21:03:41Z")
Synonyms can help with irregular plural nouns. The wordnet synonym file
should contain many of the standard English examples.
Cheers,
Ivan
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:17 AM, sam aswin [samaswin@gmail.com](mailto:samaswin@gmail.com) wrote:
> I understood. They use stem. Is their any alternative for plurals?
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### Author:  [@samaswin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samaswin)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-plurals-in-snowball/13954/4 "2013-10-16T04:05:54Z")
Hi Ivan,
I already used wordnet. Then also wordnet didn't help that much.
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### Author:  [@Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Vlcek1)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2013, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-plurals-in-snowball/13954/5 "2013-10-16T05:31:09Z")
Hi,
May be I missed that but have you tried KStem yet?
Regards,
Lukáš
Dne 16.10.2013 6:05 "sam aswin" [samaswin@gmail.com](mailto:samaswin@gmail.com) napsal(a):
> Hi Ivan,
> I already used wordnet. Then also wordnet didn't help that much.
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### Author:  [@samaswin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samaswin)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2013, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-plurals-in-snowball/13954/6 "2013-10-16T05:52:46Z")
Let me try that first
Thank You
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### Author:  [@samaswin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samaswin)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-plurals-in-snowball/13954/7 "2013-10-16T06:30:20Z")
Kstem is better than snowball. But it didn't resolve all my requirements
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### Author:  [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2013, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-plurals-in-snowball/13954/8 "2013-10-16T09:18:57Z")
If you want automatic indexing of irregular verbs/nouns, you need a
morphological analyzer for the language.
For Russian and English, Igor Motov prepared this plugin
> **[imotov/elasticsearch-analysis-morphology](https://github.com/imotov/elasticsearch-analysis-morphology)**
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> elasticsearch-analysis-morphology - Morphological Analysis Plugin for ElasticSearch
Jörg
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### Author:  [@samaswin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samaswin)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2013, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-plurals-in-snowball/13954/9 "2013-10-16T09:31:04Z")
Thanks Jorg,
Let me try.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-plurals-in-snowball/13954/10 "2017-07-06T02:12:12Z")