A smaller number of nouns do not typically refer to things that can be counted and so they do not regularly have a plural form: these are known as uncountable nouns (or mass nouns). Examples include: rain, flour, earth, wine, or wood. Uncountable nouns can’t be preceded by a or an.

There is a lot of rice. In this sentence we use a singular verb conjugation (is) because rice (like bread, water, fun, and homework) is an uncountable—and therefore a singular—noun. There are a lot of bags. In this sentence we use a plural verb conjugation (are) because bags is a plural noun.

We can talk about beans since bean is a count noun, but rice has does not appear in the plural in its mass sense. So a native speaker of English might talk about one bean or two beans or three beans or more, but not about *one rice or *two rices.

Even when you have “baked beans,” you would say “The baked beans are delicious.” When you make a dish like “rice and beans,” however, it becomes singular: “The rice and beans is delicious.”

In English grammar, countable nouns are individual people, animals, places, things, or ideas which can be counted. Uncountable nouns are not individual objects, so they cannot be counted.

Milk is an uncountable (non-countable) noun like water, snow and rice. Cartons of milk are countable so we use many. Other countable nouns include people, houses and pens.

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the word ‘coffee’ is uncountable. It is a singular noun with no article. However, if you say: ‘There are many different coffees for sale in that store’, you mean different types of coffee, so in this case it’s a plural noun, and therefore countable.

Moderato con anima (English Only) Yogurt is naturally uncountable. It only becomes countable in a restaurant/café or meal context when you are talking about servings (‘We’ll have two frozen yogurts please’) or in a shopping situation (as lingobingo said).

[uncountable, countable] ​a thick white liquid food, made by adding bacteria to milk, served cold and often with fruit added; an amount of this sold in a small pot. natural yogurt. There’s a yogurt left if you’re still hungry.

As the product became a staple, we settled on fixed spellings and pronunciations: usually ‘yoghurt’ (pronounced like “yoggut”) in the UK and yogurt (pronounced like “yoe-gurt”) in North America. Australia, meanwhile, uses the British spelling but the American pronunciation, as far as I know.

Yoghurt is common in British English, but seldom used in America. To remember that yoghurt is the primarily British spelling of this word, think about the H that it shares with the word British. There is no H in the word American, and yoghurt should not be used in American English.