According to <https://www.japanesewithanime.com/2017/08/definite-indefinite-
articles.html> 猫の耳 can be translated as any of the following.

```

    Cat's ear.
    A cat's ear.
    The cat's ear.
    Cats' ear.
    The cats' ear.
    Cat's ears.
    A cat's ears.
    The cat's ears.
    Cats' ears.
    The cats' ears.
    
```

From my time using and learning Japanese, context will take care of the
ambiguity. However, what strategies of handling definiteness and plurality
does Japanese have assuming we had zero context, and wanted to express each
one of these translations while ruling out the others? Is it possible?
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word-choice plurals
Definiteness and Plurality Strategies
This question is closely related: [What is the difference in usage between a
plural using (a) the kanji repetition character 々, (b) a plural using -たち, and
(c) the singular?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/8105/5010)

In an RPG, 猫の耳 should almost always be sufficient. Whether it's one ear or a
pair of ears does not matter in most cases. But in a very rare situation where
"cat's ear" and "cat's ears" must be distinguished as two different types of
item in an inventry, you can use
猫の[片耳](https://jisho.org/word/%E7%89%87%E8%80%B3) and
猫の[両耳](https://jisho.org/word/%E4%B8%A1%E8%80%B3). These are the words you
have to remember and use when you want to specify whether something (e.g., a
medical trouble) is only about one ear or about both ears. If this is about "a
rose" vs "roses", these can be distinsuished like 一輪のバラ and バラの花束. As the
linked article points out, there is no one strategy to specify plurarity in
Japanese, so you have to get used to several patterns.

Definiteness of the subject of a sentence is specified using が/は (see: [What's
the difference between wa (は) and ga
(が)?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/22/5010)). Definiteness of an
object can be explicitly specified if you really need to, too. For example,
you can say ある猫 ("a certain cat"), その猫 ("the cat"), 例の猫 ("that cat (you
know)"), etc.
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