The plural of deer is deer. This word is an irregular plural noun The noun deer is both the singular and the plural They saw one deer or They saw two million deer Deer is the preferred plural form of deer, although deers (rarely used) is also an accepted plural. Answer from Leonah on preply.com
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Grammar Monster
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The Plural of Deer
What is the plural of deer? The plural of deer is deer. Do not use deers.
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Reddit
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r/grammar on Reddit: So "deer" is a zero plural word is there any other animal that has a zero plural name?
January 1, 2024 - This null indication indeed indicates "a particular grammatical function by the absence of any morpheme", not simply fails to differentiate but positively indicates by choice of the null. So this is perhaps a true zero indication, whereas "deer" is simply an undifferentiated plural form.
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It's a matter of historical origin and subsequent development.

In the oldest recorded English deer belonged to the neuter declension, which did not have a distinct plural ending in the nominative and accusative cases. (It is believed that this declension did have plurals in Proto-Germanic, but they disappeared before English or any immediate ancestor was written down.) At that time there was no ambiguity, since the determiners accompanying these nouns did change in the plural.

Later, when the Old English endings were mostly lost, the majority of these neuter nouns acquired 'regular' plural endings in -n, eventually superseded by endings in -s: wīf, for instance, became wives in the plural. A few, however did not, and deer is one of these.

It is often remarked that all these nouns with invariant plurals denote animals, deer, sheep, fish, swine, which are either herded or hunted; and it has been suggested that both the 'mass noun' sense with herd animals and the custom of referring to all hunted animals in the singular (we hunt bear, lion, and elephant as well as deer) helped inhibit plural regularization.

ADDED: See the second edition (1954) of Jespersen, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, Part II SYNTAX (First Volume), Ch.III The Unchanged Plural (pp. 49–69), especially 3.1–3.2 and 3.71.

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A good answer of StoneyB. I can only add that the lack of distinction between plural and singular forms of some old nouns (which logically must have this distinction) exists in many languages and can be traced back to the ancient state of the language, where the same word was used to describe both the class of elements and one particular element. For example, such a peculiarity still can be found in Korean or Chinese - you usually don't bother about plural ending, unless you want to emphasize the plurality.

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Form the plural form of the noun deer a deers b dears class 4 english CBSE
June 22, 2024 - It can be made plural by just adding ‘-s’ at the end, i.e. ‘books’. Likewise, the noun ‘match’ can be made plural by adding ‘-es’ at the end, i.e. ‘matches’. However, there are some exceptions like ‘fish’ and ‘sheep’ which stay the same in their plural and singular forms. Another one of these exceptions is the word ‘deer’. Now, let’s look at our available options: (a)deers - This word is made by adding the suffix ’s’ to the root word.
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Wiktionary
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deers - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
“I thought he used to be a hunter or something,” Hardin said. “If you call shooting deers in some kind of deer zoo great sport,” Sarah said. ... Modern usage is likely to be regarded as an error or indicative of nonstandard speech. The standard (irregular) plural is deer.
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Collins Dictionary
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DEER definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
Word forms: plural deer language note: Deer is both the singular and the plural form.
Published   January 25, 2018
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Quora
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What is the plural form of “deer”? - Quora
Answer (1 of 25): Deer. It’s the same with: fish (unless you’re referring to many kinds of fish as in “all the fishes of the sea”) shrimp Salmon (or any specific fish like trout, sturgeon, etc) Bison Elk Antelope Moose names of conditions or diseases (tuberculosis, malaria, angina, etc) ...
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Oxford English Dictionary
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deer, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
Old English díor, déor, Middle ... theer). plural Old English–1800s normally same as singular; also Middle English deore, deoran, Middle English deoren; Middle English deores, dueres, 1600s–1800s occasionally deers.
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Form the plural form of the noun: deer - Deers - Dears
The plural of deer is deer. Example 1: Deer are found in all continents except Antarctica and Australia. Example 2: Deer are excellent jumpers and swimmers. The word “deer” can be either singular or plural depending on the context, and thus it is called an irregular plural.
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World Deer
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What's the Plural of Deer? [ANSWERED] - World Deer
June 27, 2022 - Whether you’re learning to speak English or are a native speaker, the word “deer” can be confusing. What’s the plural of deer? Well, the answer is really quite simple. The plural of the word deer is “deer”. The same form of the word is used for both singular and plural references ...
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Merriam-Webster
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DEER Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
To save this word, you'll need to log in. ... : any of various slender-legged, even-toed, ruminant mammals (family Cervidae, the deer family) having usually brownish fur and deciduous antlers borne by the males of nearly all and by the females only of the caribou : cervid
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GRAMMARIST
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Deer vs deers
June 19, 2023 - Deers is an accepted plural, but it is rarely used. The word deer comes from the Old English word, deor, which means four-legged animal, beast.
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Kylian
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Plural of Deer | Learn English
May 7, 2025 - These include: Wildlife terms: sheep, moose, elk, bison, fish (in certain contexts), salmon, trout · Game animals: grouse, quail, pheasant (when referring to the species collectively) ...
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Reddit
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r/EnglishLearning on Reddit: Deer or deers?
December 28, 2017 -

I was a bit confused while watching a video, when I heard a phrase "Santa is real and reindeers fly".

The question is: what is a correct plural form for "deer": DEER or DEERS?

Thanks for help!

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U.S. National Park Service
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Shawnee Language Words - Deer (plural) (U.S. National Park Service)
March 4, 2022 - Learn how to speak Shawnee with some basic words and phrases. Provided by Joel Barnes of the Shawnee Tribe, these short videos will help you properly speak simple words. In this video, we learn how to say the plural form of “deer."