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Nouns (plural) and verbs (3rd person singular in the Present Simple tense) ending in -y preceded by a consonant take -ies as their ending: city - cities dry - dries
In other cases (that is, when -y is preceded by a vowel) the ending of nouns and verbs is -ys: boy - boys stay - stays
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