dear all
i constantly come accross the words informations and trainings in documents at work and was wondering if you could help me on when to use them?
as far as i'm concerned, neither is an english word - but i'm not a language expert - so please help me out...
sd

Both are wrong and should not be used.

The plural of the words training and information.

= training (pl) and information (pl)

"I organised multiple user training" is an example.
"There is lots of information to be gained." another example.

Neither would use informations or trainings...

I have to constantly correct this too.

It's unusual to hear most native English speakers using the word 'training' as a noun to refer to a single episode of training. More often, it's used as an adjective, or to describe the education (in a general sense) of someone.

For example, in the phrase above, depending on what you're trying to convey, I would say:

1. I have organised training (n) for multiple users (could refer to one or multiple courses, but implies that the people will be smarter at the end of it)
2. I have organised training (adj) courses for multiple users
3. I have organised multiple user-training (adj) courses

I wouldn't say it was that unusual to use it as a noun

"I've attended the training"
"I distributed the information"
"I've reviewed all the information that I got at the training"

etc etc

I was being lazy Plus I answered the question

Is the use of informations + trainings correct? The answer was No. I could go into the grammar, but really I cannot be bothered.

Training is necessary to change your lazy ways...

I don't need lectures thanks

These expressions probably don't sound strange anymore because we've all grown used to them (or should that be "gotten used to them"?)

Unfortunately, they are not proper nouns but are often used as such, the correct form for British English would the "training course" or "training Information".

I can understand the pluralisation of "information" since in some languages it's perfectly acceptable to have plural information - German for example does this.
English used to have some quaint uses of plural/singular nouns such as "news" - nowadays we refer to "this news" but in the not so distant past, it would have been referred to as "these news"

PS, your 2nd and 3rd examples are, however, more correct (except you would have received the information, not got it)

Pedant mode off.
;-)

So in "Training Information", which is the proper noun (since neither of them are?)
Me too

Ah!

Well, I would say that in this context, "Information" is qualified as "training information" and thus becomes a proper noun.
Maybe

Might I suggest that some posters on this thread refresh their memory on what constitutes a proper noun?

Actually, it's 'neither of them is'

You are of course correct in that I amongst others have bandied the term "Proper Noun" around without regard for its proper meaning. Let's just settle on substantive then :-)


I just noticed that this is my 1,000th post on the EF - do I receive some sort of reward?

Training has been used as a noun since the fifteenth century.

Information is clearly a noun. I don't see any ambiguity on that score.

Neither of these words is countable, so we cannot make either of them into a plural by sticking an s on the end.

HTH

thanks a lot - i will continue to correct their trainings and informations!

I know that "information" is used in other languages like in german, spanish, etc. with different pronunciations/or spelling but the word "training"? Is it not just plain english?

Not to mention the Ladys, Babys and Partys...

If the document is written in German, training would be a loan word, in which case it would be subject to German rules.

As they say in Walsall: "Wudja loik a pannini with yer coffay?"

You mean loan word? Yes...

Training, I think it is actually spelled trenning, in French means something else, what was it....sweat pants?

Loan words are fun, confusing. Took me a while to start remembering what are casquette and basquette, I think I still actually misspelled them here. The weird look on my face when I heard "take the casquette off your head"...