Template:Plural/doc

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This template can be used to select the singular or plural form of a word depending on a number and the grammar rules of a language. It functions more or less like the {{PLURAL:}} parser function, except that the language code is given as a parameter.

Usage

For most languages, including English, {{Plural | lang=xx | {{{n}}} | singular | plural}} is exactly equivalent to {{#ifeq: {{{n}}} | 1 | singular | plural}}, but for some languages the rules are different and some even have more than one plural form:

  • Amharic (am), French (fr), Hindi (hi), Armenian (hy), Lingala (ln), Malagasy (mg), Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br), Tigrinya (ti), Tagalog (tl), Walloon (wa):
    Zero is considered singular, not plural.
  • Czech (cs), Slovak (sk):
    Czech and Slovak have two plural forms: the first, a "paucal" form, is used for the numbers 2, 3 and 4, while the other is used for larger numbers.
  • Belarusian (be), Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography) (be-tarask), Bosnian (bs), Croatian (hr), Polish (pl), Russian (ru), Serbo-Croatian (sh), Serbian (sr, sr-ec, sr-el), Ukrainian (uk):
    Same as above, except that only the last digit matters (but numbers ending in 11–19 are always plural; so 1, 21, 31, etc. all use the singular, 2–4, 22–24, 32–34 etc. use the paucal form and 5–19, 25–29, 35–39 etc. use the plural).
  • Romanian (ro):
    For integers between 20 to 100, and for integers whose last two digits are either 00 or make a number in the range from 20 to 99, the preposition
    de
     is added in most cases (see Romanian numbers, sections "Preposition
    de
    " and "Agreement between number name and modified noun"). To use this, one should explicitly enter the plural form without
    de
     as the first plural form, and the one with
    de
     as the second plural form.

Currently, only the exceptions listed above are implemented, but others can and should be added as needed.

Examples:

  • "{{{n}}} {{Plural | lang=en | {{{n}}} | apple | apples }}"
    • produces: "0 apples", "1 apple", "2 apples", etc.
  • "{{{n}}} {{Plural | lang=fr | {{{n}}} | pomme | pommes }}"
    • produces: "0 pomme", "1 pomme", "2 pommes", etc.
  • "{{{n}}} {{Plural | lang=pl | {{{n}}} | jabłko | jabłka | jabłek }}"
    • produces: "0 jabłek", "1 jabłko", "2 jabłka", "5 jabłek", etc.

(To do: add more examples)

The template takes no parameters.

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the Template namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Localization

This template is not intended to be localized.

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