In English, the word
information does not have a plural form:
INCORRECT: We need more informations.
CORRECT: We need more information.
CORRECT: We need more pieces of information.
This can be confusing for speakers of languages in which the equivalent word has both singular and plural forms:
French: information [singular], informations [plural]
Italian: informazione [singular], informazioni [plural]
German: Information [singular], Informationen [plural]
English treats the word
information as a
mass noun, while the equivalents in these other languages are
count nouns. For more about what these terms mean, see yesterday's post:
The Grammar of Mass and Count Nouns.
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