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Russian has singular, plural and paucal (reserved for small numbers: 2-4). Interestingly, zero is plural, not paucal: 1 kot "1 cat" 3 kota "3 cats" but:

• msuvakov 2y ago
  Same in Serbo-Croatian: 1 mačka 2-4 mačke 5+ mačaka 0 mačaka
  • PinkSheep 2y ago
    > Slavic family: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Croatian https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#index-dcngettext https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#ind...
• lIl-IIIl 2y ago
  Also 101 becomes singular again, as on "101 kot". There are websites that capture these rules for all common languages, to assist localization and translators. https://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/localization-guide/en/latest/l10n/pluralforms.html https://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/localization-guide/... English is nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); Russian is much more complex: nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2);
  • SilasX 2y ago
    English has the same issue with ordinals. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th ... then back to 101st, 102nd.