Some/a new jeans

Some/a new jeans
Message from milasha posted on 01-03-2016 at 13:38:28 (D | E | F)
Good evening.
Thank you for your help.
Which is correct? a or some?
I'm going to buy a/ some new jeans.

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Edited by lucile83 on 01-03-2016 13:49

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Re: Some/a new jeans from lucile83, posted on 01-03-2016 at 13:58:47 (D | E)
Hello,
None of your sentences is ok; jeans is a noun in plural, you can't use 'a'. You can't use 'some' either, which would mean you want to buy one leg or the waist or a pocket...
I think you coud say : I am going to buy jeans. It would be fine.

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Re: Some/a new jeans from gerondif, posted on 01-03-2016 at 14:02:39 (D | E)
Hello,
In English all the clothes "below the belt "with two holes through which you put your legs or feet are plural:
shorts, jeans, trousers, overalls, swimming-trunks, knickers, briefs. (notice that a skirt or a dress are singular since there is only one hole through which you put the entire body.)
my system doesn't apply to the clothes "above the belt": a pullover, a shirt.... are singular although you have two arms... sorry!
Socks and gloves are usually plural since obviously, you've got two feet and two hands but you might have lost a glove or a sock.

If you describe a piece of clothing, you will say: I bought a pair of jeans, I bought three pairs of jeans.
When you wear them, just use "jeans" She was wearing jeans and a white T-shirt.

I bought some jeans is ok only if you insist on having bought several pairs of jeans, a certain quantity, not just one. But you wouldn't say: I'm wearing some jeans, or Maybe you would mean that you picked up a pair of jeans in haste without choosing.
"a jeans" is wrong.

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Re: Some/a new jeans from sherry48, posted on 01-03-2016 at 18:03:54 (D | E)
Hello.
In the U.S., we do sometimes say "He is wearing some jeans", although perhaps "He is wearing jeans"" or "He is wearing a pair of jeans" are used more often. In the same way, it's possible to say it all three ways for anything that comes as a pair-shoes, socks, gloves, etc.
Sherry

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Re: Some/a new jeans from razzor, posted on 02-03-2016 at 08:26:13 (D | E)
Hello,
We say 'a pair of jeans'
(just like 'a pair of trousers')

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Re: Some/a new jeans from min155, posted on 03-03-2016 at 05:28:36 (D | E)
Hello,
The man wearing black jeans/socks is a celebrity.

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Edited by lucile83 on 03-03-2016 06:40

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