In a sentence like:
I teach programming to first-years.
What’s the correct spelling for the last plural? first-years, first-year’s, ...?
I don’t know how to pluralize, hyphenate, and/or apostrophize.
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I teach programming to first-years.
What’s the correct spelling for the last plural? first-years, first-year’s, ...?
I don’t know how to pluralize, hyphenate, and/or apostrophize.
I would not use first-years because we don't know what it really means. If you meant students, I would go with:
I teach programming to first-year students. (hyphen optional)
This pushes the plurality onto student, which is easy to manage.
But if you insist on using first-years of some form, I would use:
I teach programming to first-years. (hyphen optional)
In context it is just plural. No apostrophe because it is not modifying anything.