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Hey, now, you're both right - the Japanese language doesn't distinguish between singular and plural.
lol that's not true at all dog
Please explain how that's wrong?
Japanese nouns don't have grammatical number. The closest you can get is adding an affix like -tachi, but even then it's almost exclusively for people and means more like "and company" rather than a true plural.
The noun for "city" is 市 ("ichi"), and it can mean either one city, two cities, or many cities. You can specify how many by adding a number, but the word itself doesn't change.