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A great example I just saw was when I was reviewing a PR with translations into one of the Slavic languages that does Slavic plurals and it just avoided the pro
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A great example I just saw was when I was reviewing a PR with translations into one of the Slavic languages that does Slavic plurals and it just avoided the problem by translating the sentence as "the number of things: {number}" whereas in other languages it was "{number} things". Genius, frankly.
Slavic plurals (not in every Slavic language don't quote me):
- when the name of the number ends with "one" you put the noun in the singular. So numbers like 1 and 21 and 100001 use singular nouns, but not 11 because its number is not "ten-one"
- When the name of the number ends with "two" through "four" you put the noun in the genitive singular so you say "I have two of chicken." Again, the teens don't fit because they aren't formed by "ten-two" etc.
- Otherwise: genitive plural "I have five of chickens."