Update of Transifex

[Valiant]

I noticed an update of Transifex (at least for Russian translation). Now there are 4 translation sections: “one”, “few”, “many” and “other”, while original English variant still has only 2: “one” and “other”. Can someone explain me these 4 sections with examples (in English), so I can use them as a reference for correct translation?

[Wuzzy]

This is called “grammatical number”.

In English, there is singular and plural.

One house.
Two houses
One liter.
Two liters.
0.5 liters.

In English, the rule is simple: If the number is exactly 1, it is singular (“one” in Transifex). Otherwise, it is plural (“other” in Transifex).

Grammatical number rules may be different for each language. I don’t know anything about Russian, but it could be that Russian has a different grammatical number system than English. Which would mean it has more than just singular and plural.

To know what exactly these rules are, you must know Russian a little bit or ask someone who knows the language better than I do.

[Valiant]

I mean, I thought that these “one”, “few” and so forth are for reference. I.e. “One house”, “few houses”, “many houses” and “other houses”.
I wonder what Transifex meant by them.

EDT: that’s not an update, as I understand, these 4 grammatical times are for some selected strings. 3 is more common.

[LazyCat-rus]

This is plural forms of gettext.
Russian lang have 3 plural forms:
1 thing - Just one
2-4 things - Many (but not so big)
5-infinity things - Many

Every plural form for any language can be explained by special gettext string in .po file
Here is example for Welsh Language:

where is:
nplurals=4 – Means that language have 4 plural forms
(n==1) ? 0 - if things num is ‘1’ then use first plural form
(n==2) ? 1 - if things num is ‘2’ then use second plural form
(n != 8 && n != 11) ? 2 - if things num is not 8 or 11 then user third plural form
othewise use forth plural form.

For Russian is more complicated, i don’t want describe this mess =)

Most languages(like English) have simple plural form:

And any translation system must respect plural forms of any language.

[Jeffreyraigh]

Just downloaded a client update to the CBT this morning. Giving you a heads up. Adamas